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From all of my other previous shell scripting articles you can see that shell scripting is a very good way to get a task done or to automate. This is great but some times a little bit of that three letter acronym “GUI” is a nice touch. Well my friends, if you’ve been reading my articles and following my dialog examples then you are in luck. If not don’t worry, you can view all of the articles in the Shell Script section to the right.

The program to make your GUI’s for your shell scripts is the exact same thing as dialog except its graphical. Its called Xdialog. Once installed you basically use it the same way as dialog. If your thinking about upgrading a script thats written in dialog you might want to think twice because some window managers will display the windows differently.

Check out these Xdialog examples and corresponding screenshots:

Xdialog

Xdialog -yesno “Do you like Xdialog?” 5 50 && echo “Thats nice” || echo “Yea, some times its better to stick to CLI”