On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Chris Green wrote: > 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).
Try: rxvt -e sh -c "ls && sleep 15" Notice that the -c switch then is a sh(1) argument. > The ultimate reason for wanting this is to be able to pop up a command > line file viewer as a Mozilla/Netscape helper application. Whatever program you run, have it do the delay (like "rxvt -e cat"). Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/
