a new script to the menu system and how to call su (Re: Adding a script to make menu item work)

[Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>]

Em Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:34:59 +0200 (CEST)
"T.Pospisek's MailLists" <tpo2@spin.ch> escreveu:

> If you come up with somethink slightly general I'd be interested in it. I
> (am trying to) maintain xxdiff a graphical diff programm which will only
> start if it is passed two files as argument.
hmmm, 

I was thinking about something like this:

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#!/bin/bash

function wait
{
    echo "press any key to continue..."
    read ANYKEY
}

if ! [ -x "$1" ]; then
    echo "Error! $1 is not an executable file!"
    wait
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
    msg="I'm about to run $1, type the arguments you want to pass to it:"
else
    msg="$2"
fi

echo "$msg"
read args

exec $1 $args
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you pass the command you wish to run (with no args...) and
the message you want to send to the user, ex:

run-with-args /bin/ls "what arguments you want to pass to ls?"

I think I'll implement a way to pass default arguments, would that
be needed? 

I think a script like this (or this one) should be added to 
the menu package, what you all think?

by the way I think su-to-root should call su with the full path..
should I file a wishlist bug? that seems a security hole...

[]s!

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