File: //usr/share/doc/dialog-1.0.20051107/samples/tailboxbg
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: tailboxbg,v 1.5 2003/08/15 19:40:37 tom Exp $
: ${DIALOG=dialog}
tempfile=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || tempfile=/tmp/test$$
trap "rm -f $tempfile" 0 1 2 5 15
./killall listing
./listing >listing.out &
$DIALOG --title "TAIL BOX" \
--no-kill \
--tailboxbg listing.out 24 70 2>$tempfile
# wait a while for the background process to run
sleep 10
# now kill it
kill -3 `cat $tempfile` 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
# ...and the process that is making the listing
./killall listing