---
name: "ascommand"
section: "1x"
platform: "linux"
package: "afterstep"
version: "2.2.12-18"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ascommand"
---

# ascommand(1x)

send commands to AfterStep

## NAME

ascommand - send commands to AfterStep

## SYNOPSIS

**ascommand** \[-f *file*\] \[-h\] \[-i\] \[-v\] \[-w *id*\] \[--\] \[*command*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **ascommand** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**ascommand** is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.

## OPTIONS

- **-f** **--file**

  input commands from file (- means stdin)

- **-h** **--help**

  this help

**-i** **--interactive** starts interactive communication with AfterStep

- **-v** **--version**

  print version information

- **-w** **--window-id**

  window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)

- **--**

  end parsing of command line options

- command

  command to send to AfterStep

If **-f** - or **-i** is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output.  **-i** is noisier than **-f** -.

## SEE ALSO

[**afterstep**(1x)](/afterstep/1x.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda \<robert@debian.org\>, using [**help2man**(1)](/help2man/1.md) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).