Whiptail

Whiptail is a program that allows shell scripts to display dialog boxes to the user for informational purposes, or to get input from the user in a friendly way. Whiptail is included by default on Debian.

Info box

A simple type of dialog box in Whiptail is the info box. This shows a dialog box containing text to the user.

whiptail --title "Example Dialog" --infobox "This is an example of an info box." 8 78

See also

• TUI
• Dialog

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