[openbox] Using | in ob3 menus

[Nagy Mate]

greetings,
 try
 sh -c "mpc stats | osd_cat .. etc"

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:21:46PM +0000, Dave Foster wrote:
> 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..
> > 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?

regards,
 kz
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