TODO - add my notes, and scripts

(on Wikipedia)
https://invisible-island.net/dialog/

A program to present a commandling dialog, that lets a scripter get user input.

Capable enough for everyday scripts. Capable enough that to get a "GUI" dialog, I would rather spawn a terminal and use dialog.

• dialog

• A GUI option would be Xdialog, which comes with most distributions.

  • 2016-03-29 - Xdialog does not come with Slackware 14.1

• I think it's hilarious there are so many nice screenshots of a text program.

• 2018-05-15 - 1.2-20140911 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
• 2016-03-28 - (version not recorded) on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 1.2-20130928 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

• Dialog has come with probably every Linux distribution I've ever used.

Examples ∞

• menu (variable)

• menu (file)

For a GUI popup, you don't need xdialog, zenity or the like. Use your GUI terminal, with some sort of --command and pass your dialog command to it. Examples:

• gui-yesno-dialog.sh

• For complex code, you can probably add it into some external file, and then do something like the following (example is urxvt):

\urxvt  -e script.sh

Alternatives ∞

• /tag/dialog-software
• YAD - a fork of Zenity with some dependencies removed.

• Wenity