UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,

thank you in advance for any help on this

I have a dtterm command to open a new small terminal window with a contents of log, and it works fine.

dtterm -title "my.log" -geometry =40x30+0+550 -fn 6x13 -e tail -n 40 -f /home/logs/user.log &

However what I want to do is list contents of a folder in a new window using dtterm, but cant get it to work.
example of the unix command would be ls /home/logs/

I just can't seem to find a syntax example and the using the man dtterm does not help me.

I tried searching for this on this site before posting.

Thanks again

Golf

I'd suggest something like

Code:

xterm -e "ls /home/logs;bash"

try it out and then we see...

Hello michnmi,

thank you for replying to my question ....

were getting closer

I tried the code you suggested xterm -e "ls /home/logs;bash"

It opened a new window to the home/logs folder but it acted more like a
cd /home/logs command into a new window, as it did not list that folder's contents. This listing of the folder in a new window is important.

Summary the command opened a new window acting like a cd command
this erro was displayed in the new window
xterm: Can't execvp ls /home/logs;bash

btw
this code xterm -e "ls /home/logs"; gives the same results as
this code xterm -e "ls /home/logs;bash"

I hope I gave good feedback that will help you with the next step.

thank you for helping me with this michnmi

sincerely, Golfcents

xterm is not a shell, just a terminal. When you feed it shell statements, it doesn't know what to do with them because there is no program named "cd wherever ; ls".

If you want xterm to run shell statements, you have to tell it to run a shell.

Code:

xterm -e bash -c "ls /home/logs | less"

Form me it works...

Code:

user@localhost:~$ xterm -version                                          
XTerm(261)
user@localhost:~$

(Solaris 11)