#!/bin/sh displayDialogBox() { case $dialogBox in whiptail) useWhiptail "$@" ;; dialog) useDialog "$@" ;; ?) echo "Unknown dialogBox variable" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac } useDialog() { dialog "$@" 9 60 } useWhiptail() { str=$(echo "$@" | grep -oP '(?<=").*?(?=")') width=$(calcWidth "$str") height=$(calcHeight "$str") whiptail "$@" ${height} ${width} } calcWidth() { width=$(echo "$str" | wc -c) echo $((${width}+8)) } calcHeight() { newlines=$(printf "$str" | grep -c $'\n') chars=$(echo "$str" | wc -c) height=$(echo "$chars" "$newlines" | awk '{ x = (($1 - $2 + ($2 * 60)) / 60) printf "%d", (x == int(x)) ? x : int(x) + 1 }') echo $((5+${height})) } setDialogBox() { export dialogBox=${1} }