Dialog script

[Gregory J Paxton]

I'm trying to write a bash script for some menu dialog boxes.  I'm
having trouble retrieving the output written to stderr by the dialog
program to use in my script to determine which programs to run.  The man
pages only seem to tell me how to redirect to stderr or how to write it
to a file, but there must be a more dynamic way to retrieve the data
without writing files to my hard disk which will have to be cleaned out
later.

Thanks in advance,

greg