Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-06 Thread lee
Stuart Longland writes: > On 05/12/13 20:45, bastian-fvwm-org-20121...@t6l.de wrote: >> >> If you need alphabetical order try: >> PipeRead 'for i in $(echo $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | sort) ; do echo Read $i; done' > > Or even: > PipeRead `ls -1 $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | while read i; do echo Read $i; done`

Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-06 Thread lee
bastian-fvwm-org-20121...@t6l.de writes: > On 05Dec13 11:00 +0100, lee wrote: >> | PipeRead 'for i in /bin/ls $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm; do echo Read $i; done' >> >> which seemed to read the contents of an executable file and tried to >> execute whatever it read as commands. That appears to be way too

Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 05/12/13 20:45, bastian-fvwm-org-20121...@t6l.de wrote: > > If you need alphabetical order try: > PipeRead 'for i in $(echo $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | sort) ; do echo Read $i; done' Or even: PipeRead `ls -1 $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | while read i; do echo Read $i; done` More than one way to skin this cat

Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-05 Thread bastian-fvwm-org-20121105
On 05Dec13 11:00 +0100, lee wrote: > | PipeRead 'for i in /bin/ls $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm; do echo Read $i; done' > > which seemed to read the contents of an executable file and tried to > execute whatever it read as commands. That appears to be way too > dangerous to use. It reads /bin/ls as input f

FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-05 Thread lee
Hi, what would be the best way to read configuration file snippets from a directory or from various directories? Currently I have ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc to start with and statements in it like , | [...] | Read fvwm-colours.fvwm | Read fvwm-desks.fvwm | Read fvwm-menustyle.fvwm | [...] ` Wha