[RndTbl] Shell programming question
Bill Reid
billreid at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 2 19:53:59 CST 2005
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>
> took the course a little over 10 years ago). I looked at the man pages for
> Zenity and BASH. I also looked at several examples in the /etc directory
> (obviously unsuccessfully). I'll admit to being an airhead occasionally, but
> this is a really simple problem. Simple problems are the worst ones to
> solve. :-(
The special parameter $? is the status or return value of the last
command.
For example:
zenity --question "Test"
echo $?
$? is 0 for "OK" and is 1 for "Cancel"
Thanks for asking the question. I have used "dialog" for similar
purposes but zenity looks quite nice.
Good luck,
Bill
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