*University Health Centre University of Southampton,* Highfield Campus,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ 02380 595 000
On 20/12/2021 17:16, Neil Stone via Hampshire wrote:
Thanks for the update, I don't suppose anyone has a postcode (or even
address) for this place? Google is offering several alternatives
Thanks Brad. The second one solves my conundrum.
'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'
Owain
On 26/02/2021 09:30, Brad Macpherson via Hampshire wrote:
G'day Owain,
I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
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I think that's the nub of it. I want to put ristretto into the
background but stay in the same directory for geany
On 26/02/2021 09:31, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote:
The '&' before 'geany' will put the process into the background. Is that
what you want?
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Hi. Could someone help me with the error of my ways? I'm sure this one
is dead simple but I can't see it.
I have this alias:-
alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany progress &'
The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file
that opened would be ~/
