gah, not two minutes after I replied personally about not understanding, I figured it out...
brilliant! thank you On 17 Dec 2001, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:33, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > is there any way to expand blackbox shell commands to bash (or other > > shell) aliases in the blackbox menu? > > > > or better yet, is there a method to use variables inside the menus, to > > define a command that might be long, but is often used (my xterm > > settings)? > > Actually, we just went through this a short while ago (I had a similar > thought). Simply export the commands as shell environment variables and > reference them as such. > > Jamin W. Collins