<div dir="ltr">Try this:<div><br></div><div>OUTPUT=$(kdialog --title "Input" --inputbox "Type something")</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:09 PM, John Blomfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jabfield@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jabfield@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to use the command kdialog that produces an input GUI and captures the text in a bash script something like this:<br>
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#!/bin/bash<br>
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kdialog --title "Input" --inputbox "Type something"<br>
# kdialog sends the output to stdout ie prints on the command line but I want it to go to a variable like this:<br>
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OUTPUT=&1<br>
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But this does not work.<br>
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Any help would be appreciated.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John<br>
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