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Problem with this bash script

Hi,
I have a problem with the following Bash script I found while surfing :

Code:

#!/bin/bash

name=`dialog --backtitle "Hello Bash script"\

                --title " The question "\

                --inputbox " what's your first name : " 0 0 2>&1`

if [ $? = 0 ]; then

        dialog --title "Hello Bash script"\

        --msgbox "\nHi, $name !" 10 30

fi

exit 0

When I run it, the fisrt dialog doesn't show up and, if I type something in the console, the second box shows a lot of garbage.

So my question is : is it possible to get user input this way or is there another preferred way ?

Thanks for your help. :)

another thing i learnt about today then... dialog!

seems there have been standard setting changes, add the option --stdout to the first command and it should all be ok. was for me. if you want an X way to do this, look at Gnome's zenity utility.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

name=`dialog --stdout --backtitle "Hello Bash script"\

        --title " The question "\

        --inputbox " what's your first name : " 0 0 2>&1`

if [ $? = 0 ]; then

dialog --title "Hello Bash script"\

        --msgbox "\nHi, $name !" 10 30

fi

exit 0

btw

Well, works like a charm !
Nice. Thanks. :)