#! /bin/sh # $Id: infobox1,v 1.4 2010/01/13 10:20:03 tom Exp $ . ./setup-vars left=10 unit="seconds" while test $left != 0 do sleep 1 $DIALOG --title "INFO BOX" "$@" \ --infobox "Hi, this is an information box. It is different from a message box: it will not pause waiting for input after displaying the message. The pause here is only introduced by a sleep command in the shell script. You have $left $unit to read this..." 10 52 left=`expr $left - 1` test $left = 1 && unit="second" done |