How to run CLI commands from the launcher?

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Published on 2012-06-16T08:53:57Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 9:22 UTC
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I press ALT+F2 key on my keyboard, and get the launcher HUD up. From there I enter a command as I would in a shell, specifically vlc ~/Music/* -Z. If done from a shell, vlc starts and begins to play music.

However, when done from the launcher, VLC replies:

File reading failed:

VLC could not open the file "/home/[username]/Music/*". (No such file or directory) user Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///home/[username]/Music/%2A'. Check the log for details.

I can't quite figure out what the difference is.

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