In this tutorial we will learn the basics on how to use the dialog utility, in order to use ncurses widget in our shell scripts. We will see how to install dialog in the most used Linux distributions, some of the common options we can use to alter the behavior of dialog, how to use some widgets; among the others:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-ncurses-widgets-in-shell-scripts-on-linux