Zenity
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zenity (lower-case z) / formerly gdialog - have graphical GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts. Zenity adds graphical interfaces to shell scripts with a single command. Zenity is an open source and a cross-platform application
sample scripts
#!/bin/bash first=$(zenity --title="Your's First Name" --text "What is your first name?" --entry) zenity --info --title="Welcome" --text="Mr./Ms. $first" last=$(zenity --title="Your's Last Name" --text "$first what is your last name?" --entry) zenity --info --title="Nice Meeting You" --text="Mr./Ms. $first $last"