run

- run an executable

Synopsis

run  [-s] [-e] [-n] [-t string] program

Description

The run command runs program, using the PATH variable to find it. By default, when program has completed, the user is prompted (Press ENTER to continue:), before being returned to FMLI. The argument program is a system executable followed by its options (if any).

Options

The following options are supported:

-e

If -e is specified, the user will be prompted before returning to FMLI only if there is an error condition

-n

If -n is specified, the user will never be prompted before returning to FMLI (useful for programs like vi, in which the user must do some specific action to exit in the first place).

-s

The -s option means "silent", implying that the screen will not have to be repainted when program has completed. Note that the -s option should only be used when program does not write to the terminal. In addition, when -s is used, program cannot be interrupted, even if it recognizes interrupts.

-tstring

If -t is specified, string is the name this process will have in the pop-up menu generated by the frm-list command. This feature requires the executable facesuspend (see face(1)) to suspend the process and return to the FMLI application.

Examples

Example 1 Sample output of run command

Here is a menu that uses run:

menu="Edit special System files" name="Password file" action=`run -e vi /etc/passwd` name="Group file" action=`run -e vi /etc/group` name="My .profile" action=`run -n vi $HOME/.profile`

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

face(1), attributes(5)