How to Install yad(shell script gui) on centos6/Rhel/Fedora

How to Install yad(shell script gui) on centos6/Rhel/Fedora

 

YAD  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.

YAD is the fork of Zenity program.

#cd /opt

#wget https://yad.googlecode.com/files/yad-0.25.1.tar.xz

#tar -xvf yad-0.25.1.tar.xz

#cd yad-0.25.1

#./configure

#make

#make install

you can read manual of yad by below command

#man yad /*for how to use*/

examples for how to use yad

#yad --calendar

example script to get the

#!/bin/bash

frmdata=$(yad --title "Login" --form --field "Username" --field="Password")


frmaddr=$(echo $frmdata | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|" } { print $1 }')
frmname=$(echo $frmdata | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|" } { print $2 }')

echo $frmaddr > test.txt
echo $frmname >> test.txt