File: //usr/share/doc/dialog-1.0.20051107/samples/tailboxbg2
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: tailboxbg2,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 &
$DIALOG --title "TAIL BOXES" \
--no-kill \
--begin 10 10 --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
--and-widget \
--begin 15 15 --tailboxbg listing.out 8 58 \
--and-widget \
--begin 3 10 --msgbox "Press OK " 5 30 \
2>$tempfile
# The --and-widget causes a tab to be emitted, but our example will only
# write one number to stderr.
pid=`cat $tempfile |sed -e 's/ //g'`
if test -n "$pid" ; then
# wait a while for the background process to run
sleep 10
# now kill it
kill -3 $pid 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
echo "killed [$pid]"
fi
# ...and the process that is making the listing
./killall listing