Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:01:05AM -0400, fdr-os@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> screen is great for that, but that's not quite what I'm looking for...
> maybe I phrased my original post badly...
> 
> My basic problem is that when I run:
> 
> # bash -c 'command1;command2;command3'
> 
> bash does those commands, then exits.  I want bash to do those commands
> and not exit, without having to put the commands into a file and use
> --rcname.

The option `-c' is not designed for an interactive bash but for
executing the string provided to that option.  If there is no
command left in the string the short `script' given by the string
does exit as usual.  As you can see from manual page, the string
is like script because if you add a second string after the option
-c and its string this is set as positional parameters strarting
with `$0':

     bash -c 'echo $0; echo $@' foo bar

Now knowing this you may use something like this

     bash -c 'echo $0; echo $@; exec -l bash' foo bar

... the option -l makes the second bash a login shell.


     Werner

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