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Hi,
I cant get this command to run in a new gnome terminal
cd "$PRG" && gnome-terminal -x sh -c './prg -r testcommand' &>/dev/null &
i can run just ./prg -r testcommand and it runs fine but in the command above it only runs ./prg
Any ideas community
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