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How can I, via a shell script, automate the dialog utility.
For example:
I want to be able to select the name I want. The dialog has no hot keys, so I need to be able to "read" the word under the cursor to select it.
Patrick Villela
Posted 2016-02-16T20:42:57.540
Reputation: 259
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This is not a job for shell scripts. Shell scripts can call command-line tools, and there are tools like expect(1) that can automate interactive command-line tools, but not for something that draws a textmode GUI to the screen. You'd do better to look at the script that calls dialog(1) and make it do what you want directly, instead of having it call dialog.
Spiff
Posted 2016-02-16T20:42:57.540
Reputation: 84 656
I have no control over the dialog script and I don't have access to the code. But thanks, I agree that it's certainly not the best way to do, but I really have to do it that way, because we have a proxy machine that redirects us to the machine needed. – Patrick Villela – 2016-02-17T19:03:29.510