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mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Bash magic help

Hi,

I'm wondering if it is possible to have some bash (or sh/zsh) command to open a new terminal and execute some other commands using it's stdin.

Example:
I want to open new konsole (or xterm or rxvt) window using a command like:

run_cmd="ls -al && read" konsole -e sh -c "$run_cmd"

However it doesn't work. It would be nice if it could take input from standard input or from run_cmd variable.

Any bash scripting hero here ?

/Matt

Andrwe

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 322

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Re: Bash magic help

Try run_cmd="ls -al && bash"
So just start a shell after the && as command.

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mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: Bash magic help

That's ok, and I know how to do it.
Still .. I want to open a new terminal with this command, as I want to be able to popup a new terminal window in ion.

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Bash magic help

try this:

xterm -e ls\;bash &

Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: Bash magic help

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do... but

run_cmd="ls -al && read" urxvt -e sh -c "$run_cmd"

works at least.

Last edited by Zeist (2010-02-15 17:46:56)

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mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: Bash magic help

I checked it and the first solution doesn't wait, it closes the terminal after ls, and the second keeps it open, but there is no output of ls, so I'm not sure if it gets called.

Combination of those two would be awesome

@Zeist, this comment was for you

@n0dix, wow .. thanks .. it works

now I have to find a way to place the windows where I want, but that's a different story

Again, the day was saved by Arch Community (TM)
Thank you

Last edited by mateusz.f (2010-02-15 17:51:49)