Shell command to start program?
 

I have a program that normally can only be started from the terminal. Now, my terminal uses the bourne shell. I want to create a icon on the desktop to start the program. It will not start by simply giving the path name, because the shell needs to be invoked first - i think!

I need to now what shell command I need to insert in the icon command path, so the program will fire up under a terminal window, when i click the icon.
thnaks:confused:

You can create a little shell script like this: Put it someplace, like ~/bin/commandscript, make it executable with and then use $HOME/bin/commandscript with you icon.

If you need your terminal to stay open with the program running in it you may want to check your terminal's command options when writing the script. For instance I use xterm as my terminal so if I want to execute program foo with arguments -i bar -e BAR in a new terminal I may issue the command:

xterm -e foo -i bar -e BAR

The -e after xterm passes what comes after it as a command to be run in the terminal. If you wrap this type command into your script then call the script from an icon that should work.