On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:55:36PM -0500, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
| I've looked through the man page and I just can't find how to do this.
| I'd like to start a command in a new terminal, let's say for instance:
|
| xterm -e ps aux | grep emacs
|
| and then leave the terminal open so that I can view the results of the
| command and any error messages.
If you mean what I think, you want:
xterm -e sh -c 'ps aux | grep emacs; sleep 60'
The sleep is to delay the xterm closing, which it will normally do when
the command is done (which is how they close when you say "exit" to a
shell). Obviously any variant on "sleep 60" will do fine as well.
Cheers,
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