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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Pass Multiple Commands and Open Multiple Xterms via PSS Post 302911614 by Corona688 on Friday 1st of August 2014 04:46:30 PM
Old 08-01-2014
No combination of quotes and semicolons is going to help when your shell code isn't being fed into a shell. xterm is not a shell, and won't understand cmd1;cmd2;...

Also, when you ssh through, your local shell may strip off the outer layer of quotes, turning it into xterm -e cmd1 ; cmd2 ; ls ; bash which is probably not what you want -- it will wait for xterm to quit before running the rest, outside!

To have xterm run a shell, tell xterm to run a shell. You can feed a string into most Bourne shells with the -c option.

Code:
xterm -e sudo bash -c "'cmd1;cmd2;ls;exec bash'"

I'm not 100% sure whether you need the extra ' ' when you run it with SAP or not. It depends whether your code gets fed into an actual shell, or just a dumb splitter. A dumb splitter might need exec\ bash to not split upon the space, even though its inside quotes.

...the 'exec bash' at the end should drop it to an interactive prompt. If it's not doing a good enough job of loading your profile, try exec bash -l.

Last edited by Corona688; 08-01-2014 at 05:56 PM..
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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