whiptail: How to redirect output to environment variable?

Question

I\'m trying to use whiptail as it\'s a lightweight alternative to dialog and seems to be installed by default in most systems (i.e., people don\'t have to go around and inst

Answer 1

This is probably because whiptail uses stdin and stdout to print the input box, so you cannot redirect stderr directly to stdout, but you need to swap them, e.g:

foobar=$(whiptail --inputbox "Enter some text" 10 30 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)