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What are alternatives to GNU dialog for shell script menus? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by coleman@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'd like to include some interactive menus and prompts in my shell scripts.

dialog is fine, but it takes over the entire screen (maybe there's a way to not do that?) with its ncurses UI. Ideally, I'd like output similar to this Go library.

Anyone know of any standalone tools I could install to avoid writing my own?

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[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After some research, fzy does a good portion of what I want. https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy

I'm already an avid user of rlwrap, which can handle other kinds of completion.

UPDATE: After looking around, I've concluded the tool I want doesn't exist, yet.