[Chicago-talk] launching a terminal?

Richard Reina richard at rushlogistics.com
Fri Mar 5 05:28:05 PST 2010


Perfect. Thank you very much the help.


---- Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:
>
> Try this instead:
> 
> system("gnome-terminal -x 'perl print_list.pl'")
> 
> http://www.fifi.org/doc/gnome-terminal/html/gnome-terminal/C/options.html
> 
> Richard Reina wrote, On 3/5/2010 7:08 AM:
> > I trying to figure out a way that a for a for a program to launch a terminal with system("gnome-terminal") and have that terminal intern launch another program as soon as it's launched. I've tried perl -e 'system(gnome-terminal; perl print_list.pl");' but the program is not running when the terminal opens.
> > 
> > Any help would be very much appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Richard
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