/contrib/dialog/samples/tailboxbg1

 1#!/bin/sh
 2# $Id: tailboxbg1,v 1.9 2010/01/13 10:20:03 tom Exp $
 3
 4. ./setup-vars
 5
 6. ./setup-tempfile
 7
 8./killall listing
 9./listing >listing.out &
10
11$DIALOG --title "TAIL BOXES" \
12	--begin 10 10 "$@" --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
13	--and-widget \
14	--begin 15 15 "$@" --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
15	--and-widget \
16	--begin 3 10 "$@" --msgbox "Press OK " 5 30 \
17        2>$tempfile
18
19# The --and-widget causes a tab to be emitted, but our example will only
20# write one number to stderr.
21pid=`cat $tempfile |sed -e 's/	//g'`
22if test -n "$pid" ; then
23# wait a while for the background process to run
24sleep 10
25
26# now kill it
27kill -3 $pid 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
28echo "killed [$pid]"
29fi
30
31# ...and the process that is making the listing
32./killall listing