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Old 07-10-2008
GUI possible in shell script..?
Hi All,
Currently my requirement is to parse through the log scripts and show the errors to the user.The only twist I got is it needs some GUI ,which is considered user friendly.

Does anyone has any idea , if GUI can be implemented through shell scripts, please let me know.

Thanks!
nua7
# 2  
Old 07-10-2008
Maybe displaying the logs as html on some webserver (apache?). If you need some options for the users on that "GUI", you can easily get that with php for example. Or cgi...

Else you might have a look into ncurses for C or Perl...

The question is, how user friendly it has to be? Sort/search options etc. or just an eye friendly display.

There might be also some fancy log viewer with built in functions - usually someone invented the wheel already so search the web, if you don't want to put too much effort into, writing something your own.
# 3  
Old 07-10-2008
A friendly eye display should be good with a couple of search options like date and return codes.
# 4  
Old 07-10-2008
Least work:
Get an Apache-httpd up, publish the logs and have them search with the search function of the browser (ctrl+f). I have something like that up, where it's checking authorization vs. a LDAP-directory additionally.

More work:
Get an Apache-httpd and a MySQL DB up, code some nice interface pages with php and have the sorting and such stuff by invoking mysql-functions out of php, so the DB will do the stuff for you.
Not sure if your logs are worth all that work/time. It's fun looking into it though.
# 5  
Old 07-10-2008
Thanks Zaxxon! Nice idea!!
# 6  
Old 02-18-2009
Bug
I think you need to take a look at Zenity, the best tool to create simple GUIs from shell scripts.

'man zenity'

ZENITY(1) ZENITY(1)

NAME
zenity - display GTK+ dialogs

SYNOPSIS
zenity [options]

DESCRIPTION
zenity is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return (either
in the return code, or on standard output) the users input. This allows
you to present information, and ask for information from the user, from
all manner of shell scripts.
(...)
AUTHOR
Zenity was written by Glynn Foster <glynn.foster@sun.com>.

Hope this helps.

See also:
More fun with Zenity: shell script/GUI interactivity

Best
FC
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