On Friday 19 March 2010 00:34:44 Dan Wallis wrote: > On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from > > source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? > > I guess something like this might do the trick: > while pgrep ooffice >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done > Although I'm not at my Gentoo box at the moment to test. The version > of pgrep on this Debian box doesn't have a -q option, hence the > redirect to devnull.
Thanks Dan, I tried this but the terminal did not wait for OOo to close. It exited straight away: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg DATA/data.ods.gpg && oocalc DATA/data.ods; while pgrep oocalc >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done' I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( -- Regards, Mick
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