[openbeos] Re: Alert command line program

On 2008-04-18 at 20:18:24 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was messing around with the "alert" command and was wondering if
> there was a way to pipe output from another command line program into
> alert so that the results could be viewed in a GUI dialog box.  Here's
> a screenshot of how it normally works:
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/2096/screen1.png
> Betips has a couple of examples but those were both with static text as 
> well.
> If it can't take piped in results, maybe it could be extended to
> enable such feature, or a similar command line program could be
> created that would do that?
> This would add some more tricks to what could be done in Haiku bash scripts.

You can use `...` or the even nicer (because nestable) $(...). E.g. to put 
the output of "date" into an alert:

        alert "Current date is: $(date)" Thanks

CU, Ingo

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