Not so much handy by itself, but very nice in shell scripts.
This makes you a handy ncurses based checklist. Much like terminal installers, just use the arrow keys and hit 'Space' to adjust the selections. Returns all selected tags as strings, with no newline at the end. So, your output will be something like:
"one" "two" "three" "four" "etc"
For those who prefer bash expansion over gratuitious typing:
whiptail --checklist "Simple checkbox menu" 12 35 3 $(echo {one,two,three,four}" '' 0"} )
Things to note:
The height must includes the outer border and padding: add 7 to however many items you want to show up at the same time.
If the status is 1, it will be selected by default. anything else, will be deselected.
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