The whiptail command has a --textbox option A text box lets you display the contents of a text file in a dialog box I would like to use the out ...

I have this simple script displaying msgbox using whiptail. When I run this script I get error: If I make change then it succeeds. Anyway I ...

I am trying to run a whiptail gauge where I am showing progress as multiple commands are run. I have some error checking, but since the commands are r ...

When I run below script, it reads a report.txt file and whenever a message is matched in the file a pop up window will come with the message. How whip ...

The first time I update the list it works just fine, from the timer I get an unselectable copy of the last text item, i.e. two "forth", but only one o ...

Here is a for loop, which is running a regular Whiptail gauge. I this loop, a command might throw an error and I would like to display a message box - ...

With the following code I can't clone the associative array in Bash if piping to a command. I'm using Whiptail to display a progress bar: #!/bin/bash ...

I'm trying to add multiple lines to Whiptail dialogs backtitles. I tried: whiptail --clear --backtitle "asdf \n asdf \n asdf" \ --title tes ...

I would like to ask user for some data, and if inactive, then exit. But whiptail has no such option as --timeout. I have tried something like But w ...

I would like to create a menu that takes the ls output of a folder and creates menu options and descriptions that match. This doesn't error, but also ...

I want to display a menu in linux bash using whiptail When a menu item contains one or more dashes, whiptail fails to show the menu. Example with only ...

I can track the rsync progress via Whiptail, using Awk to parse the rsync output, however, I'm puzzled by why the Perl counterpart doesn't work (the W ...

I need to build a dynamic list with checkboxes in whiptail. But using a variable\dynamic bash output doesn't help me. I tryed used this command Ou ...

I want to issue a bash command similar to this: Whiptail is rather particular about how the radio list values are specified. They must be provided ...

Full script is available on gitlab When started with steam-lr -g menu it is showing menu made with whiptail. Items in this menu are ordered by game i ...

Is there any way to change particular colour in whiptail ? For example to mark specific text in red ? For example : How can I colour $RED and $G ...

I have this script: When I press ESC button, the output is as expected: Now, by making opt a local variable, the behaviour is different: Outp ...

This is the code than open a whiptail message box based on the content of the file in the file variable. The file has many lines. Now the box is fi ...

I'm creating a shell script to run on my raspberry pi. Along the way I'm trying to simplify some repeated code and I'd like to make a wrapper for the ...

I'm using whiptail for a menu based tool. I'm able to set the display for the current window on start with : but the content scrumbles when I resiz ...