On 26/02/2021 09:30, Brad Macpherson via Hampshire wrote:
G'day Owain,
I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
Don't forget that an ampersand IS a semi-colon, with the added feature
that the command that it terminates gets run in the background.
Which is very useful
Thanks Brad. The second one solves my conundrum.
'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'
Owain
On 26/02/2021 09:30, Brad Macpherson via Hampshire wrote:
G'day Owain,
I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
On 26/02/2021 09:23, Owain Clarke via
The '&' before 'geany' will put the process into the background. Is that
what you want?
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G'day Owain,
I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
On 26/02/2021 09:23, Owain Clarke via Hampshire wrote:
Hi. Could someone help me with the error of my ways? I'm sure this one
is dead simple but I can't see it.
I have this alias:-
alias my_alias='cd ~/somedir
