You can open pop-up alert in command line using AppleScript.
Let Finder or System Events display dialog like this:[1]StackOverflow: How do I make a Mac Terminal pop-up/alert? Applescript?
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "Hello World"'
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to display dialog "Hello World"'
You can get the return response like this, too [2]Displaying a dialog box using terminal commands
#!/bin/bash x=`/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT tell application "Finder" activate set myReply to button returned of (display dialog "Here is a dialog box" default button 2 buttons {"button one", "button two", "OK"}) end tell EOT` echo 'Button is: '$x if [[ $x = "OK" ]]; then echo 'Shell script continues...' # Your # Code # Here fi echo 'Script ends.'
References
↑1 | StackOverflow: How do I make a Mac Terminal pop-up/alert? Applescript? |
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↑2 | Displaying a dialog box using terminal commands |