Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> Why doesn't the following work?
>
> AddToFunc AddResource "I" Exec echo $0 | /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge
> AddToFunc InitFunction "I" AddResource "Netscape*selectBackground: #FFFF66"
>
> On the other hand the following did work:
>
> AddToFunc AddResource
> [...]
> + "I" Exec echo "Netscape*selectBackground: #FFFF66" | /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb
> -merge
You just need a little more quoting to stop the "#" fomr being interpreted
by the shell as a comment.
This works:
AddToFunc AddResource "I" Exec echo "$0" | /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge
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Received on Wed Jun 28 2000 - 18:27:24 BST