Re: how recognize output of dialog ncurses inside shell

[Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@...>]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 12:40 +0200, Michal Kolodziejczyk wrote:
> On 18.05.2011 12:02, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> > Hello. I'm not try google, sorry.
> > How can i get some info about installing specific application what uses
> > dialog ncurses windows with progress bars and messages?
> > For example some program does not allow to run noninteractive and some
> > times brings boxes with yes/no questions, how can i parse it output with
> > lua?
> > Does it possible ?
> > 
> 
> In theory you can search for ansi control codes in application's output
> (if you can get one, for example with io.popen()) - if you find some,
> then the application uses ncurses most probably.
> So as far as lua is concerned, io.open() and string functions is enough
> for detecting ncurses output. But parsing output of such applications
> can be tricky, no matter what language you use.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
> 
> Regards,
> miko
> 
> 

Thank You for suggesntions.
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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
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