[Cialug] icon+bash srcipt

[Scott Yates]

I THOUGHT that looked odd.

Normally the use of pipe in Unix/Linux is to send the standard output of
the command on the left of the pipe, to the command on the right of the
pipe.

This is a very common and VERY powerful idiom.

This has some interesting examples:
http://www.linuxnix.com/2012/07/23-awesome-less-known-linuxunix-command-chaining-examples.html





On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It was the su -c that worked instead of su |
>
> > From: Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] icon+bash srcipt
> > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 7:58 PM
> > On 03/31/2013 07:51 PM, Dan Hockey
> > wrote:
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > cd /home/debian/SimpleIDE-0-7-2
> > > su | ./simpleide
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > su works but fails after entering the password because
> > it didn't change dirs.
> >
> >
> > 2 things:
> >
> > Why not just su | home/debian/SimpleIDE-0-7-2/simpleide
> >
> > Also, I expect you to have an X window permission issue, and
> > you'll
> > likely find that sux is the command you're really looking
> > for.
> >
> >
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