[openbox] Using | in ob3 menus

[Dave Foster]

I'm not sure as to how it actually works, but as an easy solution you
could put those commands inside a shell script somewhere and have OB run
that.

Just guessing, I think OB calls fork/exec on the action itself, and it
doesn't pass it to a shell.. since pipes are really a shell thing, I
wouldn't expect a fork/exec to handle them.  Then again, I've forgotten
a lot since that class..

dave
daf at minuslab.net


On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 04:08 -0700, mfitzgib wrote:
> Basically, I'm trying to put this command into my menu:
> 
> mpc stats | osd_cat ... etc
> 
> I know it runs mpc stats, but it doesn't pipe the output through osd_cat. Do I 
> need to do anything special?
> 
> Slainte,

> Matthew