Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

[Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>]

On 30.11.2011 17:25, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote:
> Well, the example i gave you opens another terminal (xterm) and opens
> icedove without closing the first terminal nor the second (assuming that
> you was using xterm in the first place).
>
> If you want the terminal to be closed, you may use:
>
> echo exit > xterm -e `icedove &` & (if you want the xterm you use to
> open icedove closes)

why use a shubshell for icedove, we expect to use the output for something?
better use single quotes to protect the `&'  to be parsed by the shell 
and to prevent from word splitting, so we keep it as one 'word' option 
for xterm.

echo exit > xterm -e 'icedove &' &

(untested - no X here)