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Old 03-23-2009
zenity --question help
Hello

I've a script where I've a zenity --question because I want to ask the user if he is sure that he wants to delete the file.
The problem is, if the user says "OK" it deletes nad if the user says cancel it deletes Smilie
How can I close the script if the user says cancel??

thanks
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Old 03-23-2009
why don't u use -i option

rm -i file
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Old 03-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by amitranjansahu
why don't u use -i option

rm -i file
Because it's not a regular file. It's a file from a working copy that I use with subversion
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Old 03-25-2009
have you tried something like:
Code:
zenity --question --title "Alert"  --window-icon=none  --text "Are you sure you want to delete this file?"; echo =$?=

 
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