Re: gmc neverceases to amaze

["Thomas R. Shannon" <tshanno bsd medctr luc edu>]

On 21 Jun 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

> "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'
> 

Yep, this worked.  Thanks to all,
Tom
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