I would like to start up an rxvt window which executes a command and the *doesn't* exit afterwards. I can't find any way to do this.
A straight 'rxvt &', as expected, starts up running a default shell and, of course, stays running until the shell exits. A command like 'rxvt -e ls &' pops up, runs the ls and then exits immediately, I want it to stay (OK, so I don't want to run ls like this but it illustrates the problem). I can't get something like 'rxvt -e ls | more &' to work because (I think) the command line just doesn't get parsed right for this to work. 'rxvt -e "ls | more &"' is no better. Both are very difficult to diagnose because the window pops up and then disappears almost instantly. The ultimate reason for wanting this is to be able to pop up a command line file viewer as a Mozilla/Netscape helper application. Can anyone suggest how to do this? -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
