Any simple menuing dialogs callable from scripts?y

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 28 15:32:47 UTC 2007


On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:54:56PM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> > Are there any simple menuing dialogs that are callable from scripts,
> >without gaving to resort to C programming?
> 
>   dialog, Xdialog, zenity, etc..

Those are "graphical" (either ncurses or X).  If OP want "text", then
try something like
    select x in ...; do
	...
    done
which is part of standard Bash/Ksh.

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