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Text Entry Dialog

Use the --entry option to create a text entry dialog. Zenity returns the contents of the text entry to standard output.

The text entry dialog supports the following options:

--text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the text entry dialog.

--entry-text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the entry field of the text entry dialog.

--hide-text

Hides the text in the entry field of the text entry dialog.

The following example script shows how to create a text entry dialog: 

#!/bin/sh

if zenity --entry \
--title="Add new profile" \
--text="Enter name of new profile:" \
--entry-text "NewProfile"
  then echo $?
  else echo "No name entered"
fi

Text Entry Dialog Example

Zenity text entry dialog example