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From: Jason Vervlied <jvervlied@boca.verio.net>
To: Alex Dyas <adyas@twowaytv.com>
Subject: Re: xterm -exec question
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:48:58 -0400
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On Tuesday 18 September 2001 07:40 am, you wrote:
> i'm trying to do the following :
>
> xterm -exec tail -f foo.txt | grep -v bar
>
> however, the grep part seems to be interpreted outside the exec. the result
> is that the exec happens, the the grep happens on it's own.  i would like
> to be able to run the whole thing, tail and grep all as part of the exec.
>

Run it out of a shell script

e.g.

-------------------------
#/bin/sh

tail -f foo.txt | grep bar
--------------------------

xterm --exec foo.sh

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Jason

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