How to call a program and exit from the shell (the caller) when program is active?
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I want to run a program with GUI, by typing into konsole
: foo args …
and exit from the shell (that's the caller) when the program (foo
) is active.
How do I this? Is there a Linux/Unix built-in command/program to do it? I'm not a shell-man, really. I know that it's possible by writing a small program in C or C++ (any other programming language with small I/O interface on POSIX) programming language with the fork()
and one-of exec*()
function family. It may take some time; I'll do it only if there is no native solution.
Sorry for my bad English; it's not my native language. Also, not sure on tags, please edit for me, if I'm wrong.
If it matters, I'm using OpenSUSE 10.x.
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