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Display Finder dialog boxes using shell scrips UNIX
Over on this thread on the forum site, there's a great discussion on how to put up dialog boxes using shell scripts. Quite a few solutions are offered, including two third-party programs -- CocoaDialog (which has some nice example scripts on their page) and Pashua. User hayne also offered up an AppleScript solution with a couple of example dialogs.

So if you need to pop up a dialog during a Terminal script, one of these methods should do the trick...
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Display Finder dialog boxes using shell scrips
Authored by: ssevenup on Dec 07, '04 03:28:38PM

There is also PipeAlert...

http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pipealert_en/



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Display Finder dialog boxes using shell scrips
Authored by: Pausanias on Dec 07, '04 06:39:54PM

If you use X11, you can also use xmessage.



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Display Finder dialog boxes using shell scrips
Authored by: jaydisc on Dec 08, '04 04:00:58AM
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to display dialog \"whatup yo?\""


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