Re: Starting aterm on a specific desktop

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Very close Tomas.  With that, the grep seems to work, however the title
of the window is 'sh'.

Mike


Tomas Duewiger wrote:
> 
> cajun <cajun@tdl.com> writes:
> 
> > I've answered part of my own dumb question below (why name the terminals).
> > However, I'm still not quite able to get aterm to do what I'm looking for.
> > The command line I'm using is:
> >
> > aterm -name Named -fg white -bg blue -e tail -f /var/log/messages | grep
> > named &
> >
> > This works for the most part.  Aterm does start on the desktop I want and
> > does do the 'tail -v /var/log/messages', but it does not do the grep.  My
> > guess is the problem is a syntax error, but I've tried every combination
> > of delimiters that I can think of.
> 
> aterm -name "Named" -e sh -c "tail -f /var/log/messages | grep named" &
> 
> should work.
> 
> Tomas
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