zenity

Display dialogs from the command-line/shell scripts. Return user-inserted values or 1 if error. More information: <https://manned.org/zenity>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/zenity.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install zenity
Ubuntu
apt-get install zenity
Alpine
apk add zenity
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S zenity
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install zenity
CentOS
yum install zenity
Fedora
dnf install zenity
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zenity
OS X
brew install zenity
Raspbian
apt-get install zenity
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/zenity
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/zenity zenity powered by Commando

Display dialogs from the command-line/shell scripts. Return user-inserted values or 1 if error. More information: <https://manned.org/zenity>.

  • Display the default question dialog:
    zenity --question
  • Display an info dialog displaying the text "Hello!":
    zenity --info --text="Hello!"
  • Display a name/password form and output the data separated by ";":
    zenity --forms --add-entry="Name" --add-password="Password" --separator=";"
  • Display a file selection form in which the user can only select directories:
    zenity --file-selection --directory
  • Display a progress bar which updates its message every second and show a progress percent:
    (echo "#1"; sleep 1; echo "50"; echo "#2"; sleep 1; echo "100") | zenity --progress

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