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kdialog:tldr:8e705
The command "kdialog --password "${message}"" is used to display a graphical password dialog box in the KDE desktop environment. Here is how it works:
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"kdialog" is a command-line program in KDE that provides various dialog box functionalities like displaying messages, file selection, input forms, etc.
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"--password" is an option/command that tells kdialog to display a password dialog box instead of a regular message dialog box or other types of dialog boxes.
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"${message}" is a placeholder for a variable or text that will be displayed as a prompt in the password dialog box. You can replace it with any specific message or set it as a variable to dynamically display a prompt.
When you execute this command, a password dialog box will be shown on your screen, with the text specified by the ${message} variable as the prompt. The user will then be able to enter their password securely before proceeding further with the script or application that triggered the command.