Re: launcher for terminal ap
Mark Grieveson writes:
> Einar Olason wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the exo-open command, but you could try xterm -e
>> dict . I have a very old version of XFCE here at work and there is a
>> command here called xfterm4 which starts your preferred shell as
>> defined by the TERMCMD variable. xfterm4 -e dict should also work in
>> most cases. In general the -e 'command' option seems to work with most
>> graphic terminals (e.g. rxvt and konsole).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Einar
>>
>>
>> 2006/11/14, Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>:
> Hello Einar. I tried the -e command (xterm -e dict), but it did not
> work. The terminal appears for a second, but then dies.
Maybe you can try with an expect[1] script? Something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
send_user "Word?\ "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
exec dict "$expect_out(1,string)\n"
exit
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If you execute that script it will ask for a word and pass it to dict
(you need to have expect installed).
This is my first expect script, so probably there are much better ways
to solve your problem.
HTH,
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[1] apt-cache show expect
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-- Jhair
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