> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> > Exec "Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep
> > -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
> >
> > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ?
>
> Because fvwm2 doesn't start a shell .... the command you give above uses
> the shell characters ( | $ etc., but there's no shell to interpret them.
If that is true (and I don't know, really), then the answer
would be:
Exec "Stop It" exec \
sh -c "kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')"
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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