[TriLUG] Bash 'gui' tools

[Wing D Lizard]

I've used dialog/xdialog before.  It is very nice, because there is a 
text version and
an x version, you can use the same script in either environment.

http://linuxgazette.net/101/sunil.html

brett bolen

Chris MacLeod wrote:
> I think you mean tui :)
> bash has a select statement that you can use to present a list of choices to
> the user and have them select them.  That's about as simple (and as complex)
> as you can get with bash alone, anything more and you're probably looking at
> curses, tcl or something along those lines.
>
> On 11/30/07, Craig Taylor <ctalkobt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've got a series of bash scripts that I'd like to 'gui'-ize - is anyone
>> aware of command line tools (not curses, wxwindows etc) that could be
>> invoked simply from a shell, eg:
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>>         menu 'Give user directions' 'choice 1' 'choice2' 'choice3'
>>         result=$?    # 0 for choice1, 1=choice2, etc...
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>> Development system is Ubuntu Gutsy so packages that are more 'apt' to
>> install with it are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Craig Taylor
>>
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