Bash script

musther · 02-07-2008, 05:17 PM

I have a script which my users are most likely to run from Nautilus just by double clicking and selecting run.

However, I want the script to run in a terminal to interact with the users through an xterm window.

So I basically need the script to start xterm and then run the remainder of itself in that xterm window.

I know I can execute a command or two with:

Code:

xterm -e "command"

But the script is reasonably long.

Is there any way to do this short of creating two scripts?

Thanks

jailbait · 02-07-2008, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by musther

I have a script which my users are most likely to run from Nautilus just by double clicking and selecting run.

However, I want the script to run in a terminal to interact with the users through an xterm window.

So I basically need the script to start xterm and then run the remainder of itself in that xterm window.

I know I can execute a command or two with:

Code:

xterm -e "command"

But the script is reasonably long.

Is there any way to do this short of creating two scripts?

Thanks

I do this routinely by creating two scripts. I don't see anything wrong with doing so. The first script is:

xterm -e /pathname/commandname

and the second script is in /pathname/commandname

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ntubski · 02-08-2008, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by musther

Is there any way to do this short of creating two scripts?
Thanks

If you really want to do it one script you could have something like this

Code:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$RUNNING_IN_NEW_XTERM" != t ] ; then
        RUNNING_IN_NEW_XTERM=t exec xterm -e "$0 $*"
fi

#rest of the script here...