zenity
Display dialogs from the command-line/shell scripts. Return user-inserted values or 1 if error. More information: https://manned.org/zenity.
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Display the default question dialog:
zenity --question
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Display an info dialog displaying the text "Hello!":
zenity --info --text="{{Hello!}}"
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Display a name/password form and output the data separated by ";":
zenity --forms --add-entry="{{Name}}" --add-password="{{Password}}" --separator="{{;}}"
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Display a file selection form in which the user can only select directories:
zenity --file-selection --directory
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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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