According to the whiptail manpage: --gauge text height width percent A gauge box displays a meter along the bottom of the box. The meter indicates a percentage. New percentages are read from standard input, one integer per line. The meter is updated to reflect each new percentage. If stdin is XXX, then subsequent lines up to another XXX are used for a new prompt. The gauge exits when EOF is reached on stdin. Running the following snippet does not change the text: ( echo 10 sleep 5 echo 20 sleep 5 echo XXX echo Replacement text echo XXX sleep 5 echo 100 sleep 1 ) | whiptail --gauge "Original text" 10 40 0 # whiptail --version whiptail (newt): 0.52.1
Created attachment 435793 [details] Simple patch to make the existing code work Looking at the code, I think the authors intent was for the first line after XXX to be the new percentage. So the input would be of the form: XXX 30 We're now at 30 percent complete. XXX I've attached a patch that makes it behave that way.
Created attachment 435794 [details] Patch so behavior matches man page The code as it exists does not match the behavior described in the man page. My interpretation is that the input between XXX is just the text. The input stream would be: 20 XXX We're now at 20 percent complete. XXX This attached patch implements that behaviors.
Thanks for the patches. We are trying to be compatible with dialog, so the first one is actually correct. I've pushed an updated patch (to 0.52.11) to the newt git repository and a man page description fix, so it's clear that after XXX should be a percentage. This will be in newt-0.52.12.
Another issue: sleep 5 | whiptail --gauge "multi\nline" 10 40 0 will display: multi line while dialog displays: multi line With no leading space before line.
Should be fixed in git now. Thanks.