shell programming challenge

[Adam Fabian]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote:
> Hey, folks -
> 
> I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute 
> a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the 
> program finishes. Another desirable thing would be to also be able to 
> 'source in' a file of shell environment that would affect the new window 
>  and shell.

bash --rc-file \
file_that_contains_the_environment_i_want_and_the_command_i_want_to_run

If you mean that you want the xterm to continue running the same
instance of bash.  I don't think xterms run without the benefit of a
program to emulate a terminal for.
-- 
Adam Fabian (afabian at austin.rr.com)