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Renolc

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 13

prompt user before running command?

Hi all.
I'm just wondering if there was a simple, built-in command for bash that will have a gui pop up asking if the user wants to continue or cancel a command.

There's always zenity, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing something much simpler, but I can't for the life of me find it. ><

Any help or advice is appreciated.

And for the curious, I hope to use this for halt, reboot, and log out. I find it much more user friendly if I am asked before everything is closed.

Last edited by Renolc (2008-04-26 15:28:37)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: prompt user before running command?

bash? gui? nope. bash itself has nothing to do with gui.
just use something like zenity.

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: prompt user before running command?

And for the curious, I hope to use this for halt, reboot, and log out. I find it much more user friendly if I am asked before everything is closed.

What about this?
http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2007/12/0 … n-openbox/

Renolc

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Registered: 2007-01-02

Posts: 13

Re: prompt user before running command?

Cool. Found gxmessage in the AUR and am playing with it now. Thanks for the heads up.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: prompt user before running command?

you may want to take a look at dialog. Its sort of a curses/built in terminal appearance.