Some good bash and bash alias tricks.

[Deb-fan]

Had to trash this, as was going to add junk to it, went to dork with it to confirm something and nopers, wasn't right, so getting rid of what was here until such time as (if) I get around to debugging.

Alrighty got it sorted, had to poke the syntax used in the if statement a bit. Was going for a password protect kind of setup used along with what's in the last post. That being when someone is following one of the tutes on autologin/startx(on tty1)without a display manager. Noted that I fiddled with things a bit, so it's just autologin without a display manager and using a script run on user login to prompt whether or not to start a graphical session. This is an example using a password protected prompt instead.

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#!/bin/bash

echo
echo
read -sn5 -p " Enter access code or pass-phrase. " XORG

if [ $XORG -eq 12345  ]; then
    [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec startx

else

echo " Let's see some ID !! WHO ARE YOU, WHERE DO YOU COME FROM ... WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE ?!?! "

fi

echo
echo


Quick explanation of that stuff. the -s is for silent so what someone types on the prompt isn't visible to whoever may be watching you, the n5 just means that bash reads the first 5 characters typed and stores them in a variable named XORG, IF what a user enters matches ( is equal/-eq to 12345, my super-secret password example here)the value of the XORG variable in the if statement, then it runs the following line starting the graphical session. Though if what the person enters doesn't match, is not -eq to 12345, runs the other command, echo's "Let's see some ID etc."

Yeppers that could be a lot of other things folks. Use your imagination ... that's what it's for.

[vmclark]

[quote="Head_on_a_Stick"]Here's a version that uses whiptail for a similar effect:
quote]zenity is another one of those menu thingy's

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#!/bin/bash -
# demonstrates all zenity functions
# also demonstrates
#+ FUNCNEST Limiting recursion
#+ lower casing ${selection,,}
#+ removing spaces ${choice// }
#+ file_selection with starting directory
#+ readlink to get final destination
#+ brief option to file (-b)

finale(){
  # demo - shows zenity return value(s)
  zenity --info \
    --title="Zenity returned:" \
    --window-icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/emotes/face-worried.png \
    --width=400 \
    --text="$@"
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

calendar(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --calendar \
   --title="Calendar demo" \
   --date-format="%A, %B %-d, %Y" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

entry1(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --entry \
      --title="Entry demo (visible)" \
      --text="Text entry dialogue" \
      --width=400 \
      --entry-text="This sentence can be changed." \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

entry2(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --entry \
      --title="Entry demo 2 (invisible)" \
      --hide-text \
      --text="Text entry dialogue" \
      --width=400 \
      --entry-text="This sentence can be changed." \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

error(){
  zenity --error \
    --title="Error demo" \
    --text="This is a sample error message"
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

fileselection(){
  # --filename=FILENAME --multiple --directory --save --separator=SEPARATOR --confirm-overwrite --file-filter=NAME | PATTERN1 PATTERN2
  result=$( \
    zenity --file-selection \
      --title "File selection demo" \
      --filename=/etc/ \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  if [ -h $result ]; then
    reallink=$(readlink -f $result)
    txt=$(file -b $reallink)
    finale "$result\nbut this is a symbolic link to\n$reallink\nwhich is $txt)"
  else
    finale "$(file $result)"
  fi
}

info(){
  zenity --info \
    --title="Info demo" \
    --width=400 \
    --text="This is info text"
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

list(){
  finale "This demo is using the list type with radio buttons\nThis next will show a check list"
  selection=$( \
    zenity --list \
      --title="Zenity Demonstration" \
      --width=640 --height=480 \
      --text="List type wih check boxes" \
      --column="Col 1" --checklist \
      --column "Item" \
        TRUE Oranges \
        TRUE Bananas \
        FALSE Cherios \
        FALSE Cigarettes \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$selection"
}

notification(){
  echo "message:You have been notified. The rest is up to you" | zenity --notification --listen --timeout 1
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

progress(){
  (for i in $(seq 0 10 100);do echo "# $i percent complete";echo $i;sleep 1;done) | zenity --progress  --title="Progress demo" --width=800
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

question(){
  zenity --question \
    --title="Question demo" \
    --text="Ready to proceed?" \
    --ok-label="I'll be careful" \
    --cancel-label="Get me out of here"
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

textinfo1(){
  FILE=~/.bashrc
  zenity --text-info \
    --title="Text info demo" \
    --width 640 --height 480 \
    --filename=$FILE \
    --checkbox="This is acceptable."
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "You accepted" 
}

textinfo2(){
  FILE=~/.bashrc
  zenity --text-info \
    --title="Text info demo" \
    --width 640 --height 480 \
    --filename=$FILE
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "You accepted" 
}

warning(){
  zenity --warning \
    --title="Warning demo" \
    --width=400 \
    --text="This is a demo warning"
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
}

scale1(){
  result=$( \
  zenity --scale \
    --title="Scale demo" \
    --text="How old are you")
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

scale2(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --scale \
      --title="Scale demo" \
      --print-partial \
      --text="How old are you" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

scale3(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --scale \
      --title="Scale demo" \
      --value=50 \
      --max-value=450 \
      --min-value=50 \
      --step=5 \
      --text="Your aproximate weight" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

colorselection1(){
  TITLE="Color selection 1"
  result=$( \
    zenity --color-selection \
      --title="$TITLE" \
      --color="#123456")
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

colorselection2(){
  TITLE="Color selection 2 with palette"
  result=$( \
    zenity --color-selection \
      --title="$TITLE" \
      --show-palette \
      --color="#123456" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

password(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --password \
      --title="Password demo" \
      --username)
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

forms(){
  result=$( \
    zenity --forms \
      --title="Forms demo" \
      --text="Please fill out this form" \
      --add-entry=Name \
      --add-entry="Street Address" \
      --add-entry=City \
      --add-entry=State \
      --add-entry=Zip \
      --add-password=Password \
      --add-calendar="Date of birth" \
      --forms-date-format="%A, %B %-d, %Y" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 1 ] && exit 0
  finale "$result"
}

declare -r FUNCNEST=2

while :;do
  selection=$( \
    # Column 1 is a radio button or a checkbox and is pre-selected if TRUE
    # Column 2 is demo function name and is hidden from list
    zenity --list \
      --radiolist \
      --title="Zenity Demonstration" \
      --width=800 --height=600 \
      --text="Dialogue Type" \
        --column="Select" \
        --column="Hidden" \
        --column="Option" \
        --column="Description" \
        --hide-column=2 \
     FALSE Calendar "calendar" "Choose a date - mm/dd/yyyy, mm/today/yyyy uses strftime"\
          FALSE "Entry 1" entry "Enter/Edit some text. (Visible)" \
          FALSE "Entry 2" entry "Enter/Edit some text. (Invisible)" \
          FALSE Error error "Show a error message" \
          FALSE "File Selection" file-selection "Select file(s) from fm type dialogue." \
          FALSE Info info "Show an information dialgoue" \
          FALSE List list "Radio buttons (This demo) and checkboxes" \
          FALSE Notification notification "Unfortunately influenced by Gnome-3" \
          FALSE Progress progress "Process % progress bar" \
          FALSE Question question "Ask question with OK and Cancel buttons" \
          FALSE "Text info 1" text-info "Display text file contents with checkbox" \
          FALSE "Text info 2" text-info "Display text file contents without checkbox" \
          FALSE Warning warning "Display a warning message " \
          FALSE "Scale 1" scale "Choose a number using bar slider - Returns final value" \
          FALSE "Scale 2" scale "Choose a number using bar slider - Returns all values" \
          FALSE "Scale 3" scale "Choose a number using bar slider - Step 5 (with arrow, not mouse)" \
          FALSE "Color Selection 1" color-selection "Select a color" \
          FALSE "Color Selection 2" color-selection "Select a color - shows palette" \
          FALSE Password password "Enter a Username and Password. Note: --width option doesn't work" \
          FALSE Forms forms "Display a data entry form" \
  )
  [ $? -eq 0 ] || exit 0
  choice=${selection,,}   # lowercase all
  ${choice// }      # eliminate all spaces
done

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Yes, zenity rocks but you can't use it from a console screen, unlike whiptail.

[Deb-fan]

Yeah that'd have to be a deal breaker for what I'd been thinking. Well maybe, guess it's how someone chooses to apply it, zenity could actually work(seen people use it and yeppers agree it can be pretty), so thanks regardless. Would be less portable than what I'd been intending this for. Was mostly shooting for a here's a script, if you've got bash and the basic cmds/pkgs almost everything Nix on the planet includes out-of-box, good to go. Of course when I said somebody should do xy and z things, polish it all up into a so easy a caveman can do/use it script, meant somebody other than me.

Not familiar with whiptail or zenity either. Dumped a lot of time into polishing up a chroot.sh script, expanding on it to include a bunch of other stuff/related options. Between it and the cleanup.sh the scripts have ended up being just under 200 lines and somewhere around 35hrs invested by this point. Hit burn-out so shelved the idea for now.

Don't know if I'll ever get the thing finished, are still things I want to add, adjust or areas I haven't managed to work out effective solutions to address junk, at least to a point where I'm satisfied with how the final product would work. For now it's going back on the 2-dork list and likely end up circling back to it at some point in future. Mostly seems to have ended up being one of those CHIT, come too far to abandon things now situations. About formatting imo, at least for what I've got in mind here I actually like the raw command-line look. Think the main thing is that the dialogue clearly/effectively conveys what's going on, what options the user has, what to enter or press to make selections, at this or that point while the script is doing it's job.

Same for formatting and layout, using echo for blank/new lines = spacing. Making sure text isn't squished together or stretched out too much so it doesn't look ugly or weird. I seem to have settled on using capitals in this junk for emphasis added, important notices, warnings or things I want the user to be aware of and consider more closely. That's just falling back on long standing internet communication conventions/traditions, far as I'm aware capitalizing text has always been considered the equivalent of someone yelling.

So it's common sense when you see something in caps in something like a chroot script to understand it may be important. A user may want to pay attention to what's going on. Anyway that's what I've settled on in the (if it ever gets done) chroot.sh project. Pleased with some stuff, always room for improvement or enhancements and still don't think it's ready for prime time atm.