dialog is hard to use inside $(...)

larsks · Oct 7, 2013 · 59284d9 · 59284d9
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commit 59284d9
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diff --git a/virt-pick b/virt-pick
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 tmpfile=$(mktemp -t .virtpickXXXXXX)
 virsh list --name "$@" | grep -v '^$' > $tmpfile
 
-dialog --menu "Select a domain" 40 60 30 $(sed = < $tmpfile) 2> $tmpfile.selected
-sed -n $(cat $tmpfile.selected)p $tmpfile
+Xdialog --menu "Select a domain" 40 60 30 $(sed = < $tmpfile) 2> $tmpfile.selected
+
+sed -n "$(tail -1 $tmpfile.selected)p" $tmpfile
 rm -f $tmpfile $tmpfile.selected