Re: gmc neverceases to amaze

[Andrew Smith <amsmith pmail net>]

"Thomas R. Shannon" <tshanno@bsd.medctr.luc.edu> writes:

> > GMC will create a new window in the current working directory when you
> > run it.  So you just need to "cd /usr; gmc".
> 
> Hmmm.  I thought this would work but it didn't.  I get the message
> "/home/tshanno/cd not found".
> 
> Is there a way to avoid this?

It seems Window Maker is parsing the command line itself and it can't
use cd because it's a shell builtin.  One way (tested) is to have a
command line like:

    sh -c 'cd /usr; gmc'

Another is to have a script like this: (untested)

    #!/bin/sh
    cd "$1" && exec gmc

If you put that in /usr/local/bin/gmccd then a Window Maker command
line like "gmccd /usr" should work.

> Tom
    Andy
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