launch a program asyncronously with a shell script

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#1

Hello, I wrote a shell script to launch KeePass. It’s very simple:

cd /home/philip/bin/KeePass
mono KeePass.exe

I have two problems though.

  1. When I click on the script on my desktop, it launches a text editor to edit it instead of running the script. Also, whenever it gets opened in a text editor, the executable bit gets unset.
  2. If I run the script from a console, the script doesn’t return me back to the prompt until I close KeePass.

Can you tell me how to overcome these issues?

Thanks

#2

Hi
Why not install the one from the mono community or contrib repositories?
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.1&p=1&q=keepass

Then you should be able to just add to autostart, or if using gnome,
right-click and add to startup prorams.

If your executing something, use ampersand and then exit command to
close the shell if you want eg;


some_program &
exit

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#3

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:46:01 +0000, pjdeets2 wrote:

> Hello, I wrote a shell script to launch KeePass. It’s very simple:
>
> cd /home/philip/bin/KeePass
> mono KeePass.exe
>
> I have two problems though.
>
> 1) When I click on the script on my desktop, it launches a text editor
> to edit it instead of running the script. Also, whenever it gets opened
> in a text editor, the executable bit gets unset. 2) If I run the script
> from a console, the script doesn’t return me back to the prompt until I
> close KeePass.
>
> Can you tell me how to overcome these issues?
>
> Thanks

In addition to Malcom’s suggestions, I would add the line:

#!/bin/bash

to the start of the script.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator