Docu review done: Wed 31 Jul 2024 02:11:47 PM CEST

dialog

General

dialog will spawn a dialog box to allows you enter some value which places the string into a file and than back into a variable

Sample

$ dialog --title "Start tracking" --backtitle "Start tracking" --inputbox "${timetotrackon}" 100 60 2>${outputfile} ;  timetotrackon=$(<${outputfile})

[Docu with samples][https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/The_form_dialog_for_input]