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Hi,

I have a commands in a file called commands.file, I am using this file with the following commnad

xterm -e "commands.file"

After executing this file in the new xterm, it is closing automatically.

I want to use that xterm after that.

Please help me regarding this?



Thanks,
Chaitanya.

Put a sleep or read at the end of the script.

Hi Pludi

Thanks for the reply, I put sleep at the end of the file commnads.file, eventhough xterm automatically closing after excuting the commands.file. I am using tcsh shell commands in the comands.file

Thanks,
Chaitanya.

How long do you want the window to stay open? Until the user acknowledges it? Then use read var (or the tcsh equivalent). For a certain period of time? Then use sleep <seconds>. Indefinitely? Use read var < /dev/zero (or the tcsh equivalent, will use a lot of CPU).

Hi,
I have a script that sets some env variables.
I want to source the script in a new xterm and
after the script execution is over, the xterm has to be alive with the env variables set according to the script.
I tried
xterm -e "source ./myscript;tcsh" &

The variables are getting set during program execution.
I knew this because i used an echo in the script.
After the program execution is over, the xterm is alive,
but the env variables are lost.

Please help me.

Thank u.