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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Stupid question but please answer Post 89780 by Neo on Tuesday 15th of November 2005 08:06:21 PM
Old 11-15-2005
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Originally Posted by Corrail
and that would save it so if i came in later i wouldnt have to retype all of it? *
RTM provided a good answer.....

The file he created, as an example, was called "test-script".... and he created the example using the vi editor. The "w" after the escape he describes writes (save) the file.

In this case the file was saved in the current working directory because he did not specify the full path of the file.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

gnome-session-save

gnome-session-save(1)						   User Commands					     gnome-session-save(1)

NAME

       gnome-session-save - saves or terminates the current GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session-save [--kill] [--gui] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-session-save can be used from a GNOME session to save a snapshot of the currently running applications. This session will be restored
       at your next GNOME startup session.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --gui	       Shows a dialog when the session is saved, and reports errors in dialog boxes instead of printing to stderr.

       --kill	       Terminates the GNOME session.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Saving the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save

       Example 2: Terminating the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill

       Example 3: Using the GUI to terminate the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill --gui

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-session-sThe command-line executable for the application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-session 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-std-options(5), default.session(5), gnome-smproxy(1), gnome-session(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    13 Jan 2003 					     gnome-session-save(1)
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