Hello!

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Chris Green wrote:

> 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.
...
> 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.

What about letting rxvt use a shell to run the command with the pipe,
like 'rxvt -e bash -c "ls | more"'?

Regards,
David Kaasen.

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