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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cannot get terminal application to launch with a graphical launcher when successful in terminal Post 302966628 by Don Cragun on Monday 15th of February 2016 12:04:29 AM
Old 02-15-2016
Whatever shell is running your script via the "run in terminal" command is a shell that doesn't know about the recent bash and ksh [[ expression ]] test syntax.

If you convert all occurrences of expressions of the form:
Code:
[[ "$command" == S ]] || [[ "$command" == s ]]

to:
Code:
[ "$command" = S ] || [ "$command" = s ]

or convert the entire if ... elif ... fi tree to a case statement:
Code:
case "$command" in
([Ss]) echo; echo $(iwlist scan | grep -E "Quality|Signal level|Encryption key|ESSID";;
([Cc][Tt][Nn]) echo; echo "SSID:"; echo; read said; echo; echo "Key:"; echo; read passwd; sudo nmcli d wifi connect "$ssid" password "$passwd" iface wlan0; echo;;
...
esac

then most shells based on Bourne shell syntax should be able to run your script.

However, note that naming a function test (overriding a utility normally found in /bin and the built-in found in most shells that accept Bourne shell syntax) is a VERY BAD idea.

Unless all of the utilities invoked by your script are found in /bin, you also need to set PATH to include a list of the directories containing those utilities.
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XMMS2-LAUNCHER(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XMMS2-LAUNCHER(1)

NAME

       xmms2-launcher - XMMS2 daemon launcher

SYNOPSIS

       xmms2-launcher [ -?  / --help ]

       xmms2-launcher [ -l logfile / --logfile= logfile] [ -P pidfile / --pidfile= pidfile] [ --verbose ]

DESCRIPTION

       XMMS2  is  a redesign of the XMMS (http://www.xmms.org) music player. It features a client-server model, allowing multiple (even simultane-
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       xmms2-launcher includes command line options to change the way in which the daemon is invoked.

	      These options are currently recognised:

       -l logfile / --logfile=logfile
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FILES

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	      The default location for a file where the log output of xmms2d(1) is redirected. Usually ~/.cache/xmms2/xmms2d.log.

SEE ALSO

       xmms2d(1), http://xmms2.xmms.org

HISTORY

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AUTHOR

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