Zenity Linux Command and their outputs

In this blog we are going to see some of zenity commands of linux and their outputs

what is zenity?

Zenity is an open source and a cross-platform application which displays GTK+ Dialog Boxes in command-line and using shell scripts. It allows to ask and present information to/from shell in Graphical Boxes. The application lets you create Graphical dialog boxes in command-line and makes the interaction between user and shell very easy.

installation of zenity in linux:-

Zenity is by default already install in all repository of most of the Standard Linux distribution of today.

To check whether your system has Zenity already install you can use following command.

root@system:~$ zenity — version

This command shows the version of Zenity installed in your application.

If Zenity is not installed in your system you can install it by using simple command as follow:

root@system:~$ sudo apt-get install zenity [on Debian based systems]
root@system:~# yum install zenity [on RedHat based systems]

Moreover you can also build it from the source files, download the latest Zenity source package (i.e. current version 3.8) using a following link.