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user3085931
user3085931

Reputation: 1803

Return values of Bash/Dialog --checklist

I got lost with getting return values for a bash dialog. The problem is: how to get return values of a --checklist ? It's a multiple choice list, where I need a return value of every item. Here is the code:

dialog --checklist "package timing" 20 75 5 \
                   "Package A" "3 s, 4 MB" on \
                   "Package B" "4 s, 2 MB" on \
                   "Package C" "1 s, 5 MB" on \
                   "Package D" "4 s, 2 MB" on \
                   "Package E" "Very Fast" off
                   retval=$?
                   CHOICE_PACKAGES=$RETVAL

First I thought, an array will be the return value. Apparently it isn't so. Does anybody know how to get all the return values of every item ?

[Post-Edit:] Maybe in this case, if someone has a good link about a complete Bash-Tutorial, I would appreciate that too.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6305

Answers (1)

rojomoke
rojomoke

Reputation: 4015

http://invisible-island.net/dialog/manpage/dialog.txt

says that

On exit, a list of the tag strings of those entries that are turned on will be printed on dialog's output.

So you can save the output to a temporary file

dialog <....> 2> tempfile

and then parse the contents of tempfile. Your example will contain something like

"Package A" "Package B" "Package D"

Upvotes: 3

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