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[neonatus@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bostjan Muller)]

Hi!

I am trying to write a script with dialog, and I can't seem to get it working.
I don't know what stderr is (that's where the output of dialog is supposed to
go). I have a menu set up in dalog and a test bash commands after it like this:
#!/bin/bash
dialog --menu "The NEO suspend script" 10 40 5 suspend suspend  poweroff
poweroff reboot reboot
read ans
if [ "$ans" = "suspend" ]; then
echo suspend > ~/file
else echo $ans > ~/file
fi

The script does nothing - the read just wait's for the input from the user, i
tried read -e and read -p, but it didn't work either. What do I have to do to
make the output of dialog readable (or how can I use in a script)?

THX in advance!

Bostjan

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