Re: Re: Piping Commands to a shell through lsxcommand.

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:00:58 -0400 Brian Wolven wrote:

> Fidel wrote:
> > Hi beloved Steppers
> > 
> > I am trying to get my todo.txt (todotxt.com) Completely editable
> > through lsxcommand. The simple parts are all done, I can view my
> > scrolling todo list through xlabel, and I can add list items through
> > lsxcommand, textedit and autorecycle. What I would like to do now is
> > be able to delete list items and have all the functionality of the
> > original cygwin todo.sh just by using lsxcommand. To my mind I would
> > have to pipe commands from lsxcommand to a bash shell. But another
> > thing I'm thinking is that really... All of this should be doable
> > through textedit.
> > 
> > Can anybody give me some advice on either sending commands to a bash
> > shell or how I might do the other stuff with textedit?  Thanks for
> > any pointers anybody might have.
> > 
> 
> I think you ought to be able to pass stuff to bash in a
> non-interactive mode. I haven't tried anything fancy, but the
> following worked from the lsxcommand line:
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "ls"

If you'll pardon a somewhat rusty lurker for speaking up...  Don't
forget to try using "start desired-command" as the name of the Windows
command, on the off chance calling the desired-command gives the "Bad
command or filename" type of error.

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