shell scripting -- passing commands

mehesque · 06-25-2004, 09:11 AM

Say that you want to make a script that runs in runlevel 5. You want it to create a terminal (konsole or gnome-terminal) how would you go about sending that terminal some commands to execute. If I can only send it an initial command for it to execute that will be ok.

Thanks a lot.

linuxxed · 06-25-2004, 09:34 AM

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Originally posted by mehesque
Say that you want to make a script that runs in runlevel 5. You want it to create a terminal (konsole or gnome-terminal) how would you go about sending that terminal some commands to execute. If I can only send it an initial command for it to execute that will be ok.

Thanks a lot.

xterm and run it with a command.

Check the man pages. They may allow commands .

mehesque · 06-25-2004, 09:49 AM

Thanks.

I got the "gnome-terminal "--command="" feature to work. However, I'm not sure if konsole allows commands to be passed.

mehesque · 06-25-2004, 10:24 AM

Ok, yes I can send a command to konsole and xterm using the "-e" option. However, the terminal just dies once it opens, is there a way to keep it from killing itself like in gnome-terminal. There, the ""'s delayed that.

I need to have to terminal remain open throughout the duration of the executing command.

Sorry, I'm new at shell scripting...

mehesque · 06-25-2004, 10:28 AM

Ehh, I just made additional scripts to call from the -e command... works and that's all I really care about.