Does Linux's Shells have a Run Command ?
Please explain :-) thx

what is Run Command?

Can you explain a bit more on that?
What command are you talking about?
And what you trying to do?

Judging from your post here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-file-777151/
to execute a file or "running" it use "sh filename" or "./filename" from terminal.

options have the diffrent commands

Like "Run" in Windows?

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man run and see the result.
Are you talking about "ALT+F2" ?

I don't think there's a manual for run, maybe if a specific distro uses this command, but I doubt that.

I think he means Alt+F2.

I might be wrong but like in windows .

Or what might help is a Webpage with all the commands when using the terminal and simple instructions beside them ..

Hi,

I think you are referring to the 'Run' box/option you get when clicking on the Start button in Windows. From that box you can launch a command. In my opinion this doesn't exist in Linux, but you can launch about any command from a terminal. Other users already have indicated how you can switch to a 'fullblown' terminal session, or you can open a terminal window from within your GUI.

To list Linux commands and their descriptions I find these sites very helpfull:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/
http://ss64.com/bash/

I hope this helps you out a bit.

Kind regards,

Eric

You mean like a window where you type the command and it is run as a program?

You can just type in in a terminal, but closing the terminal will kill the application.

In GNOME you can get a window that you type the command in that closes automatically without killing the application by pressing Alt+F2. This is convenient when you don't want to have a terminal window hanging around just to keep the application running. But you won't be able to see the program's command-line output.

You also said if the shell has a run command, the shell practically is the run command!

Fullblown terminal session ?

That would work. But if you just want to launch a GUI application, then I would recommend using Alt+F2 if you have GNOME (I don't know if it works in KDE, maybe it does).

KDE has a run command in the menus, but--as many have mentioned--it's easy enough to just open a terminal.

IDK about KDE either but Alt+F2 works in Xfce too -- closest dang thing to Windows+R ah ivver did see. It didn't like cmd but xterm started up sweet as a new Fordson on a Summer's day.