Help on using "dialog" in shell

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hello,

i'm experimenting on "dialog" in shell scripting

consider an example :

dialog --passwordbox "password" 10 30

i need to take the password typed to a variable. how can i do it.
i tried it in perl by backticking the command. but its not working.
give me a solution ASAP......:slight_smile:

2

Try something like this:

exec 3>&1
foo=$( { dialog --passwordbox "password" 10 30 1>&3; } 2>&1 )
exec 3>&-
echo "foo=$foo"
3

thankx guys........

there is an additional option like "--stdout" which will take the o/ps to stdout and we can get it directly assigned to variables......:b: