My customer has a bunch of Perl command line scripts. They all are used like this: "myscript -a arg -b -c arg,arg". Each script has a distinct set of flags which can take zero, one or many arguments; generally there are no other parameters. So that these can be used by people with less training, I have been asked to create curses-based wrappers for these scripts that will look like this:

myscript description

option a: __________
option b: [ ]
option c: __________ __________ __________
[OK]  [Cancel]

[download]

Can anyone point me to something that will help me churn these out quickly, preferably using a simple config file for each script? Thanks!

In reply to Creating NCurses wrappers for existing scripts by samwyse

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