Zenity

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Zenity is free and cross-platform software that lets you run GTK dialog boxes from the command line and shell scripts.

File Select

• command line - Can simple scripts use GUI file manager to select file? - Ask Ubuntu

#! /bin/bash

file="$(zenity --title "Pick a file" --file-selection)"
do something with "$file"

See also

• GNOME

Favorite site

• Zenity - Wikipedia
• Projects/Zenity - GNOME Wiki!
• Zenity, create dialog boxes from the command line or with shell scripts