try to not completely change the user's screen or restore it, you can hav an option for that if you want

https://github.com/ashir321/checkbox.sh/blob/master/checkbox.sh

kindly help me print from Select Option String instead of its position

[x] Apache
[x] HA Proxy
[ ] Nginx
[ ] Message

2/4 | 2 selected
Selected:
0 1
Desired: Apache HA Proxy
and how to save the desired output in a file

the line showing how many entries and the current entry + the number of selected entries may be useful for very long lists for short lists it's noise

This is not how normal utilities work, see also #19

Hi

Thanks for the simple checkbox bash selection script, this is exactly what I was looking for.
One bug/problem I noticed is following:

1. I have black color configured for my font in my bash shell
2. I launch ./checkbox.sh script
3. I select one item with base and press enter to finish the selection
4. when checkbox.sh quits, my bash font color has switched from black to gray.

So I think the script should save the original color if possible during the start and then restore it back once finished.

think that your selector can be used as a filter

apart from some possible "design" feature the lines add little, an option to have them, or not have them would be nice

Looks like the script doesn't work on Mac OS

I am receiving error ->

./scripts/utils/checkbox.sh: line 416: read: -N: invalid option read: usage: read [-ers] [-u fd] [-t timeout] [-p prompt] [-a array] [-n nchars] [-d delim] [name ...]

Hi, have a look at how a man page standard looks like, it's all nice with the animation but it's so noisy one barely finds the doc.

luckily you display a synopsis when something wrong is input, that should go to a --help function

unfortunately that synopsis disappears, after having grabbed and cleared the screen (please don't)

option1
+option2

not an option, can be empty

more options
...

this system let's the user decide if they want separator lines, empty lines, anything they want

Using the latest version

test="test|test2"
./lib/checkbox.sh --options="$test" --multiple --message="Select"

Result

 Select
--------------------------------------------------
    [ ] tst
    [ ] tst2
--------------------------------------------------
  1/2  |  0 selected

just write what is checked, Writing "Selected:" is not only useless but it's also not part of the results

the same goes for "nothing selected"

use exit code like any other program does!

sourcing is not the same as executing, not only is it weird but you pollute the namespace

Hi,

This is how it looks like now on MacOs Catalina

\e[2K\e[37m--------------------------------------------------
\e[2K\e[34m    [ ] Option 1
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 2
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 3
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 4
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 5
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 6
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 7
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 8
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 9
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 10
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 11
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 12
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 13
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 14
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 15
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 16
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 17
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 18
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 19
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 20
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 21
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 22
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 23
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 24
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 25
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 26
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 27
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 28
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 29
\e[2K\e[37m    [ ] Option 30
\e[2K\e[37m--------------------------------------------------
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Originally posted by @andreysmyntyna in #6 (comment)