/contrib/dialog/samples/tailboxbg2

 1#!/bin/sh
 2# $Id: tailboxbg2,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$DIALOG --title "TAIL BOXES" \
12	--no-kill \
13	--begin 10 10 "$@" --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
14	--and-widget \
15	--begin 15 15 "$@" --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
16	--and-widget \
17	--begin 3 10 "$@" --msgbox "Press OK " 5 30 \
18        2>$tempfile
19
20# The --and-widget causes a tab to be emitted, but our example will only
21# write one number to stderr.
22pid=`cat $tempfile |sed -e 's/	//g'`
23if test -n "$pid" ; then
24# wait a while for the background process to run
25sleep 10
26
27# now kill it
28kill -3 $pid 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
29echo "killed [$pid]"
30fi
31
32# ...and the process that is making the listing
33./killall listing