2 Apr
2005
2 Apr
'05
11:21 p.m.
Can't help you with your specific question but here is a good bash scripting reference:
http://advbash.activeventure.net/index.html
Maybe you can find some answers there?
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On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:11, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> I'm playing around with a little program called Zenity. It is a simple way to
> call up dialog boxes from a shell script. I've been able to produce a couple
> of simple examples with just an OK box. There are more complicated examples
> I'd like to try (this is going into some articles in Call-A.P.P.L.E.). The
> thing is Zenity can return values to the calling script. I'd like to know how
> to read these values...
>
> I have done a bit of research. The UNIX textbook I was using at university
> was written around the csh and didn't really have the information I wanted in
> a location I could find easily (although I could swear it was there when I
> took the course a little over 10 years ago). I looked at the man pages for
> Zenity and BASH. I also looked at several examples in the /etc directory
> (obviously unsuccessfully). I'll admit to being an airhead occasionally, but
> this is a really simple problem. Simple problems are the worst ones to
> solve. :-(
>
> Later
> Mike