Use the --entry option.

# Text Entry Dialog

Use the --entry option to create a text entry dialog. Zenity returns the contents of the text entry to standard output.

The text entry dialog supports the following options:

# --text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the text entry dialog.

# --entry-text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the entry field of the text entry dialog.

# --hide-text

Hides the text in the entry field of the text entry dialog.

The following example script shows how to create a text entry dialog:

#!/bin/sh

if zenity --entry \ --title="Add new profile" \ --text="Enter name of new profile:" \ --entry-text "NewProfile" then echo $? else echo "No name entered" fi

# Text Entry Dialog Example

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text entry dialog example