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HI,
I am trying to execute another script from xterm using -e option.
but whenever i run xterm -e script-filename one window flashes and went off in sec.
don't know what is the problem here...
just to check this created a script which shows date,time and lists files
eg: date.sh:
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo `date`
echo `time`
exec ls
running this script from shell works fine.
but executing same script from xterm fails.
xterm -e date.sh --> pops up window and closes (window does not remains)
even tried with this xterm -e date.sh & --> same observation
need help in this, i want new terminal to remain and execute the script.
As soon as the last command executes, it is closing the window. Try a sleep statement if you want the window to remain up for a certain amount of time. You can also try putting a read statement at the end. That should make it wait for some user-input before closing.
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