Thanks for making it

Is beautiful utility. Clean and easy. Good Job. You know very well bash programming. I think more interact with the user options, like choice example, like dialog menu options or options panel to perform users action. Thanks for your job

Amazing man, very useful, I'm thinking in using with my phone connected over ssh to My PI and the PI give me some useful information about my program or services states. Yes definitely a MUST

Awesome - I love your work for both practical reasons and being actually useful, and for other reasons. I just posted two comments (one as a "reply" to the first) that you might want to read, I think you like what I'm saying - and perhaps you might be able to shed some light into what I wrote in my second one. For me my comments show right above yours, for now at least - but that's probably not the case for you, if you want to read them and can't see them right away, it's probably best to use the browsers search finctionality with my username :D And sort the comments from newest to oldest, if you don't already have KZfaq set to do so automatically. But yeah, I love what you have created - I would love to see it grow, I can see a lot of potential for more. I would love to take this job myself and fork your project, but I have more projects of my own than I can handle already, so... Anyways, your work is already awesome as it is, I really appreciate that you've written it, even if this is the final state of it as far as you go; besides, and this is why I wrote "as far as you go", FOSS has the mighty power of "fork" and there's always a change that someone else like me will unleash that power on your project ;)

thanks brother! pull requests incoming lol

what do you mean sir?

@@senjougahara9606 Simply that it can lead one down a rabbit hole which is not necessarily bad, just speaking from my own experience where I decided to learn C++ first because at the time, that was "the thing" to learn. Lead me to Java, Python, Perl, etc. Now Haskell and Rust. So it is commendable to keep learning, but can become "addictive" as well.

computers are boring unless they're used for programming

@@TheSulross or for porn!

"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

I mean it's nice but it requires a terminal. If you want a menu that's not a niche need. There are legit solutions! Dmenu, rofi, that XMonad weird diamond shape and more. So I suppose it's a flexible menu but super flexible? What is it that it was a good idea to make it a TUI?

​@@theodorealenas3171 Well, super flexible as in I can switch parameters like length and symbols very easily without needing to deep dive into the code again. I have flexible parameters I can input into the function and it just does the stuff I want to do. Mind you, this is not a 900 line script either, it is a simple few lines of code that draw up a nice and simple line of dashes while also being able to accept input text lines I can use to give a title or draw up a selection menu in the center of those dashes, code I can use to draw up a loading bar, stuff like that. Small but handy tools to make applications look nicer in the console, more orderly. It's simple and effective, versatile and I also needed an excuse to practice Python lol

@@Finkelfunk well that last bit sold me to be honest. Because I made a GUI python program that shows a full screen battery widget and disappears automatically. And my only excuse is that it's simple and in my hands it's flexible.

@@theodorealenas3171 Yeah obviously most code you make for your own benefit is probably gonna be useless. Had I designed a UI package I'd have completely done it differently, but as long as it helps me save time to draw up a nice menu there is nothing wrong with that. :)

*chuckle* that's exactly where I thought he was headed right away since dialog has been around for a few decades.

@@nathanmiddleton1478 Sure, but he hasn't been using Linux as long as us. And you can't expect someone to know everything.

@@anon_y_mousse and I was not at all being rude. I chuckle because that's what I expected. It's nice to see different perspectives.

@@nathanmiddleton1478 I didn't mean to imply that you were, I'm just saying he's likely younger than you or I.

@@anon_y_mousse and I

On LinkedIn you can find them

In fact mature C, Fortran etc libraries are legacy for Python, Rust, etc. #Internet4iran

can u share the ones you looked up then?

*depending on your system, you might also have to add -ltinfo to the gcc ... -lncurses., to get everything to compile. That wasn't mentioned, unfortunately.

THANK YOU!!! I can't say this enough. Perfect on rpi over ssh for easy navigation and manipulation of anything command line do-able. To add to this, for Linux newbies mcedit is a companion text editor with an nurses interface that is much more user friendly than remembering a billion key combinations for vim or the other text editor they always recommend.

Go to my GitLab and look for shell-color-scripts.

Oh, I didn’t know that. I always used to do chmod +x whenever I want to run a script that I wrote. What is the difference between “chmod u+x” and “chmod +x”

You mean the whole security is based on this execution permission ?

@@williamwu3457 No, obviously not, but it's just a general good practice.

4:04

Unless there is a specific security risk in running a script you wrote, 755 is fine. That’s what pretty much everything in /usr/bin uses.

> _"Elisp has a built-in GUI."_ wow, nice to know

It's not weird. On the system you had the error, /bin/sh probably did not link to /bin/bash or if it did, it was a different version of bash or not actually bash. On ubuntu for example, /bin/sh is linked to /bin/dash (yet another shell). They do this because /bin/dash is almost fully compatible with /bin/sh. I never start my scripts with #!/bin/sh unless the script is guaranteed to work outside of bash... I strive to make all my scripts compatible if I can as more systems have /bin/sh than /bin/bash...

can you explain a li'l bit more?

@@yash1152 so you mean about Tcl/Tk? Well, Bash is based on ksh. The alternative back then was csh. TCL is a scripting language that follows the csh style. Upon TCL, you can define libraries and extentions. Tk is the most popular extention. It Allis you to code gui applications. All with a fairly simple syntsx.

@@IvanGarcerant ohkay. thanks

Probably 100% == 1 core

@@ltxr9973 thanks

Confirmed! And don't listen to the haters. WE ALL CARE! :D

@@DistroTube ha ha ha h the other guy was just upset that someone else beat him to it :) ps was whip tail not able to do the same job

2nd

@@DistroTube thnx :D

Fish was the interactive shell in this video. But yes, I have zsh installed too. And bash, of course.

@@DistroTube Why use bash or zsh since fish has many more features like suggestions? I use bash for scripting, but I don't see why I would want to use it as my main shell.

@@henriquefr4543 Fish is not POSIX-compliant, using fish is basically like using python as your shell

@@groos3449 true but not true but also kind of true

@@groos3449 you can do it with xonsh

It’s just bash, so if you’re using it like a library not portable, but you can just paste the functions into your script and then it’s ultra portable

It's better to just use a "normal" programming language. ;)

@@007arek you mean like python?

@@youtube.user.1234 C lang, my friend, C lang. Or Go lang if one is lazy as me.

@@007arek that's what I was talking about.

@@youtube.user.1234 With simple scripts I'd go with Lua.

Indeed. One specialized library that uses it is tqdm!