> Work from something simpler up to what you need.
> As one line, I got the else clause to work like this:
>
> PipeRead 'if [ -r $HOME/.fvwmColors ] ; then fg=`cat $HOME/.fvwmColors | cut -f3 -d" "`; bg=`cat $HOME/.fvwmColors | cut -f4 -d" "`; else fg=AntiqueWhite bg=RoyalBlue; fi; echo "echo *FvwmButtons: Fore $fg"; echo "echo *FvwmButtons: Back $bg"'
> Watch the semicolons.
Ah, thanks.
Incidentally, I had to convert the `cat ...` syntax to $(cat ...)
to get it to work with FvwmM4 preprocessing.
SCoTTie! :)
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Received on Sat Apr 05 2003 - 22:42:56 BST