Andrew writes:
> In a script I'm writing, it writes to the file /tmp/dlgmenu:
> hda "Auto-partition drive /dev/hda"
> but in the script when I do:
> dialog --menu 12 50 8 `cat /tmp/dlgmenu` 2> /tmp/menuoption
Isn't there a first parameter missing, the menu's name?
> It creates 2 menu items. The first one ends at 'partition' and the 2nd
> one starts at 'drive'. But when I manually do:
> dialog --menu 12 50 8 hda "Auto-partition drive /dev/hda" 2>
> /tmp/menuoption
> it works just fine. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
After the size arguments, two (or 4, 6, 8...) arguments are expected,
but cat returns the whole file as a single one. You could do it like
this, with two lines in the file:
echo -e "hda\nAuto-partition drive /dev/hda" > /tmp/dlgmenu
tag=`cat /tmp/dlgmenu | head -1`
item=`cat /tmp/dlgmenu | tail -1`
dialog --menu mymenu 12 50 8 "$tag" "$item" 2> /tmp/menuoption
Do you need the /tmp/dlgmenu file at all?
Alex
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