sending 2 launcher command to terminal with && ?

[whispersGhost]

Hi

Open Solaris 2008.11

i am trying to combine 2 commands from a launcher
so i can automate a process of burning dvdrw
since the built in program just wil not do it without errors

i made 2 launchers on that makes the iso file

mkisofs -o session.iso -R session


the other that does the burn provcess

cdrecord dev=7,1,0 -v -sao session.iso

But && does not work like the tradional BSD fashion

mkisofs -o session.iso -R session && cdrecord dev=7,1,0 -v -sao session.iso

Therefore i made 2 launchers

i have placed both these launcher icons in my home folder with a working folder called session

This way if wann burn something as an example like a few (family memories avi files) i drop them into the folder,and it does work for me,but i have to do them in 2 phases not just one

it creates the session.iso file then it will write to DVDRW


Thank You

[TerryP]

It's always possible that the launcher uses exec(), which basically launches a program the way the shell does, rather then through the shell itself.

you could try: sh -c "mkisofs -o session.iso -R session && cdrecord dev=7,1,0 -v -sao session.iso" if you want 1 launcher. But note, the commands after sh -c must be quoted when the shell sees it, or it won't work right.

Another way would be to create a shell script with the commands, and execute the shell script from the launcher. In my home directory, I have a ~/sh folder in my $PATH; just for personal scripts and programs (some people use ~/bin), which I made for situations like these.

[whispersGhost]

Ya that worked thank you so much

For now i used what you had metioned.

sh -c "mkisofs -o session.iso -R session && cdrecord dev=7,1,0 -v -sao session.iso"

And you were right about the quotes.
i was missing the last one and it did not work till i put it in.

Later on i will play with that additional option you added

Thanks again

[TerryP]

missing the darn quotes is the worlds most common goof up :-(, my shell often shouts at me as well lol. On shell script, you basically put a '#!/bin/sh' on the first line of the file, then write in commands as if each line of text was a command line in your shell. Then save it, set the file executable with chmod, so you can run it like a program (e.g. '$ ~/test.sh')