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"There are some misconceptions that shell scripts are only for a CLI environment. You can easily use various tools to write GUI and/or network (socket) scripts under KDE or Gnome desktops. With the following tools you can build powerful, interactive, user friendly UNIX / Linux bash shell scripts." What's even better is that you can use BaCon to unify, and expand upon, pretty much everything mentioned in the article.…
I didn't know about /dev/tcp/host/port, has a nice Plan 9-like feel.
More portably, you can use something like netcat or socat.
The only thing I do and would use there is "logger". The rest is about showboating. A GUI and a script should never be entangled if you ask me. There should be no coupling there. Everything script-related should run quite happily non interactive. A GUI could drive a script however via the script's API. I think ESR wrote about this in TAOUP (The Art Of Unix Programming) but I can't be bothered to dig through it now fo…
I didn't know about /dev/tcp/host/port, has a nice Plan 9-like feel.