Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:15:11 -0700 From: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: shell programming challenge Message-ID: <41A7568F.3000906@Silver-Lynx.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0411260916060.22302@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <41A615CE.6010405@Silver-Lynx.com> <19861fba0411251005265ecb91@mail.gmail.com> <41A62A68.8050201@Silver-Lynx.com> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0411260916060.22302@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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> If you have the option to modify it, ensure that your script exits via
> "exec sh". Alternatively a wrapper that does this is straightforward to
> build.
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It's looking more and more that I need to make a temporary file that
packages both the init file and the program command line (eval
"blah...") before running. These will not be just shell scripts, they
will be tool programs and x applications. Didn't want to do that because
of the risk of leaving junk in /tmp.
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