How to get it to run in Terminal

[steve_s]

Man, I suck at writing scripts...that's how you learn, right? Keep asking questions...

Here is what I want: I have a desktop icon that I click on that runs a script...I want the script to then open up a terminal window/rxvt then run all the commands from the script within that terminal window...

I can get a terminal window to open, and I can get the script to run (in a seperate terminal), but not all in one; I just can't get it to open up a terminal then run everything within that terminal...

Any suggestions? I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing...

[disciple]

rxvt -e

That closes the terminal when finished though - there is another xterm parameter that doesn't close it, but rxvt doesn't support it. Barry wrote a wrapper script for rxvt for either Puppy 4.0 or 4.1 (I think 4.1) to implement it, so you could have a look for that.

[steve_s]

Thanks, disciple...man, I've got some things to learn...

[amigo]

xterm -hold -e "commands" is probably what you mean. You may be able to have the terminal window stay alive after the script is finished by using:
rxvt -e "sh -c 'commands'"

[steve_s]

xterm -hold -e "commands" is probably what you mean. You may be able to have the terminal window stay alive after the script is finished by using:
rxvt -e "sh -c 'commands'"

...didn't know where to put -hold...thanks! Works great now...very appreciated, both.

[alienjeff]

Meet two new friends:

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rxvt -h

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rxvt --help