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oodavid

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From: Newcastle, UK

Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 16

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[Solved] exo-open in a terminal script - program closes with the terminal

I've written a simple bash script that prompts for a file or directory path and opens it with exo-open, I've then assigned the script to a keyboard shortcut so that I can CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+O to open anything at anytime via a terminal prompt:

And the script:

#!/bin/bash

# CD to the home folder (not sure if this is needed, no harm either way)
cd ~/

# Request the filepath
echo -e "\e[1;31mEnter a file or directory:\e[00m"
read -e -i "~/" filename

# Convert ~/ to /home/username/
filename=`eval "echo $filename"`
echo -e "opening\e[1;32m" $filename "\e[00m"

# Open the file
exo-open "$filename"

echo "press enter to exit"
read enter

My problem is that the spawned program is linked to the terminal, when the terminal closes it takes the program with it - as a simple workaround I have another user prompt at the end to stop the terminal from closing; does anyone know how I would be able to unlink the fate exo-open from the terminal?

Last edited by oodavid (2012-04-06 11:09:38)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,488

Re: [Solved] exo-open in a terminal script - program closes with the terminal

Try setsid (setsid exo-open "$filename"):

#!/bin/bash

# CD to the home folder (not sure if this is needed, no harm either way)
cd ~/

# Request the filepath
echo -e "\e[1;31mEnter a file or directory:\e[00m"
read -e -i "~/" filename

# Convert ~/ to /home/username/
filename=`eval "echo $filename"`
echo -e "opening\e[1;32m" $filename "\e[00m"

# Open the file
setsid exo-open "$filename"

#echo "press enter to exit"
#read enter

...you can also remove the last two lines to have the terminal window close automatically.

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oodavid

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From: Newcastle, UK

Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 16

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Re: [Solved] exo-open in a terminal script - program closes with the terminal

Try setsid (setsid exo-open "$filename"):

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