Hi, thanks for reading my thread!

I have a script that I run by clicking an icon on my desktop.
The script goes and checks my various email accounts and a voice tells me how many (if any) emails there are for each account.

This is done non interactively.

I then expanded on that to have it ask me if I want it to continue. If I choose yes, it calls another script that tells me who they are from and the subject (later I will add a prompt to read the body).

My problem is I need a way to tell it to continue.

I can have it open a console while the scripts are running, but would rather have it all run in the background.

I would "settle" for it opening a console when asking a question, then closing the console and continuing. Thats what I am playing with now.

I read that if you put -i in the header (#!/bin/bash -i), it will make a script run interactively...... this does not work for me. I tried having the 1st script call the "question" script (which had the -i), no good. I then tried a trap thinking that the first script had to be truly "dead" before the -i script would work.. (trap ./question 0).... this also did not work.

So.... the questions:

1) Is there a way I can send a non interactive script simple input? - (doubtful)

2) How can I make a non interactive script call an interactive one and vis versa?

thanks,
-OG-

OK, I can use "xterm -e ./question" to run the question script...
How do I get it to exit and run another script in the background again?

Sorry.... to clairify, I don't mean "./script3 &" .... if I do that the script runs, but I don't here it.

Use something like zenity to present a GUI dialog. Use its exit status to indicate how your script should continue.

Excellent idea..... I should have thought of that myself! Already running KDE so will use kdialog.

Thanks a bunch!