Re: scripting problem

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>
>> I still wasn't able to get it to work as I'd like to,
>
> Did you see my reply? (I provided the reason and a very simple
> work-around.)

Yes, sorry I didn't reply.

I didn't try it before I found the --file option. I'd like to give it a shot
though (although for some reason I've always had a distaste for xargs, don't
know why).

Here's the command I'm presently using:
${DIALOG:=dialog} --clear \
      --help-button \
      --help-label Sections \
      --ok-label Man \
      --title "$TITLE" \
      --menu "$CAPTION" \
            $W_HEIGHT $W_WIDTH $W_MENU_HEIGHT \
      --file $tempmenu \
      2>$tempdial

From what you said, I might try something like this:
arglist="--clear \
         --help-button \
         --help-label Sections \
         --ok-label Man \
         --title "$TITLE" \
         --menu "$CAPTION" \
                $W_HEIGHT $W_WIDTH $W_MENU_HEIGHT \
                $MENU \
        "
echo $arglist | xargs ${DIALOG:=dialog} 2>$tempdial

I think the stderr redirection is what was screwing up my 'eval' usage. I
need it to go with the dialog command, and I think it might have been being
applied to eval instead. Not sure how would be working.

Thanks, Jeremy.

--
-Eric 'shubes'
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