Make message box of zenity scalable?

Question

When output contains lots of lines, zenity --info --text doesn't make it scale-able, and zenity --text-info only accept output from a file.

What can I do now? Maybe other zenity like utility can help?

Answer 1

Not sure what exactly you mean by:

and zenity --text-info only accept output from a file

zenity --text-info accepts terminal output as input, through pipe. Here is a long terminal output:

ls -l /usr/bin | wc -l
1726

You just pipe it to zenity:

ls -l /usr/bin | zenity --text-info --height=500 --width=400 --title="scalable infobox"

This is the result:

Tried on zenity version 3.6.0