Show entire file contents in dialog on Linux

Question

I want to show the contents of a file on Dialog box for which I have use the "--textbox" dialog and "--tailbox" dialog.

But it doesn't show the whole contents of file, it only shows some of the data.

How do I get it to show the entire file data?

It is quite unreadable this way. You should not use the code tag (4 spaces at the beginning of the line) for plain text.

mrucci · Answer 1 · 2010-05-21 13:41:59Z

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It has no sense to use both --textbox and --tailbox.

Use --textbox to display the whole file, use --tailbox to display only the last lines of the file.

For example, the following command will display the content of the whole file todo.txt in a dialog textbox of size 20x80.

dialog --textbox todo.txt 20 80

answered May 20 '10 at 7:25

mrucci
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	i have used --textbox but it just display me the last line of the file... – user35319 May 21 '10 at 5:21
	It's still the correct answer. Obvious question: does the file really have more than one line or has it been truncated by something else? – pjc50 May 21 '10 at 14:00
	ya the file has more than one line ofcourse.... – user35319 May 24 '10 at 9:35
	Have you tried with different files and different terminal emulators (xterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal, ...)? – mrucci May 25 '10 at 5:00
	ya i think there is problem in my text file that i want to display... thank you so much for helping me out – user35319 May 26 '10 at 7:27

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