but don’t forget the good old dialog command in bash this is pretty usefull as it also works over ssh
!even on windows! the only real difference is that dialog only colors the bash shell and draws some simple boxes on the shell but dont kick it it does a lot more than that
try this for size

#!/bin/sh
# First shell script with "dialog"
dialog --title "Dialog message box" \
--msgbox "\n Hello world !" 6 25

save it as “helloworld.sh”
then execute with “sh helloworld.sh”
afterwords fire up “man dialog” in a shell and get learning…

thanks a lot