Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts

Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by kps on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:02AM (#28852179)

And tksh (shell with tk builtins), which made (makes, if you take the trouble to install it now) it trivial to add a simple GUI to an existing shell script.

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Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by mst on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:15PM (#28854095)

Do you happen to know where there's a copy of the source? The stuff on the tcl wiki all seems to be dead and that sounds fascinating to take apart to learn how it works.

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Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by kps on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:38PM (#28854360)

https://github.com/att/ast

There's not really much to it; it's just an example of extending ksh with more builtins, which is simple by design. (I really miss what this did for Sun's dbx debugger — instead of being inside some tool with yet another idiosyncratic command language, your shell just grew commands for interacting with the process being debugged.)

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Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by mst on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:54PM (#28855285)

Aha, I shall have a dig through https://github.com/att/ast/tree/master/src/lib/libtksh then.

Thank you kindly.

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