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

Thanks for all the help, Especially Brian. I think that was the
general nudge I needed. When I'm done, I'll throw the work together
and mail the list so everyone can benefit.

Again Thanks so much!

On 8/2/07, Ariel Millennium Thornton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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