Derek Martin <code <at> pizzashack.org> writes: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:25:19PM +0000, Kent Tenney wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I want to open an xterm, send it a command and have it execute it. > > You can't do that. xterm doesn't execute shell commands passed on > stdin... It can, however, execute one passed on the command line. > > Instead of just running xterm, you can run "xterm -e 'cmd foo bar'" > where cmd is the program to run and foo and bar are its arguments. > The problem is that as soon as the program exits, xterm will exit > also. >
Sorry to reply before getting googly This appears to be a solution; xterm -e "ls; bash" http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/misc/115239-getting-prompt-after-xterm-e-command.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
