Hey, folks -
I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able to 'source in' a file of shell environment that would affect the new window and shell.
Here's what I've found out so far:
Assume we have an executable test file 'ticktock':
#!/bin/sh for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 do echo "$n MYVAR=$MYVAR" sleep 1 echo -n "continue? " read reply done # end of ticktock
I want to do something like:
xterm -e bash <(echo ./ticktock) &
When I do this, the program works & interacts, but the xterm dies upon completion of ticktock or INT. I also do not seem to be able to use the --rcfile switch as a bash option, although I can add KEY=VALUE pairs before the xterm launch.
Ideas? Please respond to me directly.
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Don Wilde ---------> Silver Lynx <----------
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