A Series of Unfortunate Problems (Xgl, 3.4->3.5 upgrade)

[James Gray]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 21:26, dave s wrote:
> > ?  I don't get it.  I think you're telling me to either run this in
> > Konsole or YaKuake right now or dump it into ~/.kde/autostart in a .sh
> > file, but I'm not sure.
>
> Sorry, I am not the best as explanations.
>
> Startup an editor eg kate, on the first line type #!/bin/sh. This is real
> important and tells the system the file is a bash script.

<PEDANT>
The "hash-bang" actually spawns a sub-shell, and uses the *sub-shell* as the 
command interpreter.  It could just as easily be "#!/bin/awk" :P  Without the 
hash-bang line the file is executed in and by the CURRENT shell (command 
interpreter), one line at a time.  Problem - what shell (command interpreter) 
does KDE's autostart feature use??
</PEDANT>

FWIW, there's a "shell" that compiles C code on the fly and then executes the 
resultant binary allowing you to use a raw C source code file as if it were a 
standard shell script :P  Never played with it, but very neat!

Cheers,

James
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