[NTLUG:Discuss] Shell script?

[Wayne Patterson]

Thanks Lance,
Patrick R. Michaud beat you to it. I knew it would be something easy. 
But when you don't know... Hey, ya gota ask.
For what I wanted to do it was this:
konsole --workdir /PATH/to/dir/  -e "command" &
I like working in KDE.
Again thanks for your responce.
wayne

Lance Simmons wrote:

>* Wayne Patterson <wjpatterson at charter.net> [040112 20:01]:
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>>I'm sure this is an easy thing to do IF you know how, and I don't.  I
>>want to write a script that will open a console, cd to a certain
>>directory and execute a command to start another program in that
>>console.  Does that make any sense? And if so what would it look like?
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>When you say open a console, do you mean open an xterm?  If so, how
>about:
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>	xterm -e 'cd /foo/bar; /bin/foo'
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>(you can look at the man page for whatever x terminal emulator you're
>using, such as gnome-terminal, to see what the syntax is)
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>if you mean a new shell, how about:
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>	/bin/sh -c 'cd /foo/bar; /bin/foo'
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