What does this line do exactly?
/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
I always assumed it was a way of launching applications without needing to
define each application explicitly as a separate
It just launches shell: "/bin/sh -c $CMD" where $CMD is your command
string. Shell parses this string and launches all specified commands,
with possible substitution, redirection, pipelining etc.
On Jan 06, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:
> What does this line do exactly?
>
> /* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
> #define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
>
> I always assumed it was a way of launching applications wi
