zenity

Display dialogs from the command-line/shell scripts.

Return user-inserted values or 1 if error.

• Display the default question dialog:

zenity --question

• Display an info dialog displaying the text "Hello!":

zenity --info --text="{Hello!}"

• Display a name/password form and output the data separated by ";":

zenity --forms --add-entry="{Name}" --add-password="{Password}" --separator="{;}"

• Display a file selection form in which the user can only select directories:

zenity --file-selection --directory

• Display a progress bar which updates its message every second and show a progress percent:

{(echo "#1"; sleep 1; echo "50"; echo "#2"; sleep 1; echo "100")} | zenity --progress

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