[openbeos] Re: Alert command line program

Ingo,
Awesome.
alert --idea "This is a test $(alert --info "This is a test inside of
a test" Ok)" "Nesting works" "Thanks Ingo"
This tip will come in handy.
-scottmc



On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>  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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