shell programming challenge

[Don Wilde]

Adam Fabian wrote:
> 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.

That's what I don't want to do. I could cat the rcfile and the command 
in a temp file, but that runs the risk of leaving junk around in /tmp. 
I'm actually eval'ing this command from another larger program and 
passing prog-to-be-run from it's argument string after a -e switch. This 
is to be generalized; I don't know what prog-to-be-run is going to be.

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