TODO - add my notes, and scripts

(on Wikipedia)
http://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.

• 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.

2016-03-28 (version not recorded) ∞

This came with Slackware 14.1

2016-03-26 - 1.2-20130928 ∞

This came with Lubuntu.

Alternatives ∞

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

• Wenity

Semi-GUI dialog ∞

Why use xdialog, zenity or any other GUI tool when you can pop up an xterm with dialog?

Well.. I solved it, at least for a --yesno

Contact Me if you can offer something less hackish or more capable.