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Old 08-30-2007
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Originally Posted by gopsman View Post
hi

i want a script which would invoke a different prompt and execute commands in that prompt and comes back. Is it possible?
What kind of prompt ? A new shell or a new xterm window ?

For xterm, you can probably use
Code:
xterm -e <progname> [args]

See man xterm for more details.

For shell, you can use the -c flag i.e.
Code:
[k]sh -c

See man sh/ksh