Making shell scripts interactive using dialog

saurabh142857 · 01-02-2005, 12:42 PM

Hi,

Can you suggest good tutorials /ebooks /websites (free of course!) on dialog utility used to make shell scripts interactive as well as on libdialog that can be used in C programs ?

Awaiting your replies.

Regards,
Saurabh

jlliagre · 01-03-2005, 09:52 AM

Xdialog may be of help (http://xdialog.dyns.net/)

Hko · 01-03-2005, 11:14 AM

$ apt-cache zenity
[...]
Description: Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts
Zenity allows you to display GTK+ dialogs from shell scripts; it is a
rewrite of the `gdialog' command from GNOME 1.