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From: "Chris T. Purcell" <c_purcell@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] menu items in dialog with variables
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:04:10
Message-Id: 20051024212059.4d8d4db0@faerun.realms
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] menu items in dialog with variables by Chris Smart
1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:46:13 +1000
2 Chris Smart <taskara@××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Wolf Giesen wrote:
5 >
6 > > dialog --menu "MENU" 20 50 16 "$menu"
7 > >
8 > >should work. Does here :)
9 > >
10 > >Mind the "$menu".
11 > >
12 > >
13 > Thanks for your reply Wolf,
14 >
15 > The script:
16 > #!/bin/bash
17 > menu="1 first one 2 second one"
18 > dialog --menu "MENU" 20 50 16 "$menu"
19 >
20 > Gives me:
21 > Error: Expected at least 6 tokens for --menu, have 5.
22 >
23 > Normally I would do something like:
24 > menu="1 \"first one\" 2 \"second one\""
25 >
26 > but this is no go with dialog and bash, it adds whatever I put as part of the text.
27 >
28 > Would you mind sending through a working sample? Perhaps I'm doing something wrong!
29 >
30 > Cheers,
31 > -c
32 >
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35 >
36
37 And you have added a default choice if nothing is selected?
38
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40 Chris
41
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