On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:46:43 +1100, Cameron Simpson said:
> 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,
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living
> room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost
I sometimes use read to accomplish the same thing, except then it hangs around
until you press <ENTER>:
xterm -e sh -c 'ps aux | grep emacs; read a'
Regards,
Ben Logan
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