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whiptail vs Zenity

A side-by-side look at whiptail and Zenity. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

whiptail

whiptail

Development

Whiptail is a lightweight user interface shell for shell scripts. It allows creating dialog boxes, menus, progress bars and more to interact with users through a text terminal.

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Zenity

Zenity

Development

Zenity is an open source command line utility for Linux that allows creating simple graphical user interfaces from shell scripts or command line. It is useful for writing scripts that need to display messages, show progress bars, display dialogs to collect user input, and more.

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