#! /bin/sh # $Id: infobox1,v 1.1 2004/09/19 20:26:42 tom Exp $ : ${DIALOG=dialog} 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