gtkdialog again, the other way around this time – how to use bash variables in dialog?

[Nils Kassube]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2013/4/21 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> > MainDialog=$(<${DialogFolder}/musician-dialogue.xml)
> > MainDialog="${MainDialog/\$InstrumentsList/$InstrumentsList}"
> > MainDialog="${MainDialog/\$MusiciansList/$MusiciansList}"
> > export MainDialog

> I was actually thinking something almost similar, using sed instead,
> but this looks more elegant, and I have seen that people seems to say
> that it's better to use the shell built-in stuff rather than to invoke
> external programs or commands.

Well, you wrote somewhere that you are using bash - therefore this 
solution works. But IIRC a traditional shell doesn't know string 
replacement. Therefore the sed option would be necessary if you want to 
make the script portable.


Nils