-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kent Tenney wrote: > Derek Martin <code <at> pizzashack.org> writes: > >> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:25:19PM +0000, Kent Tenney wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I want to open an xterm, send it a command and have it execute it. >> You can't do that. xterm doesn't execute shell commands passed on >> stdin... It can, however, execute one passed on the command line. >> >> Instead of just running xterm, you can run "xterm -e 'cmd foo bar'" >> where cmd is the program to run and foo and bar are its arguments. >> The problem is that as soon as the program exits, xterm will exit >> also. >> > > OK, I see that. > > (getting off topic) > > any chance of keeping the xterm open after running the command? > > Thanks, > Kent > xterm -hold -e "whatever"
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