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ewemoa:
Thanks -- that runs but I get the following error as well after specifying something to run and clicking the 'OK' button:

run-dialog.sh: line 15: [-z: command not found

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For values to execute, I tried 'virtualbox' as well as 'palemoon' with similar results.  To be clearer, both programs start up -- I also see error the 'command not found' result output quoted above.


FWIW, changing line 15 so that there's a space between the first character '[' and the second character '-' seemed to silence the error output.

Edvard:
Ah, yes, I was about to point that out, "[" is an alias for the "test" command that requires a closing "]" and so requires a space between it and it's argument.
Check it out: "man [" brings up the man page for "test", so:
if test -e /usr/bin/man; then echo "yes"; fi
is the same as:
if [ -e /usr/bin/man ]; then echo "yes"; fi

That same error has totally boggled me a few times in the past, and I swore I would never repeat it.   :wallbash:

ewemoa:
Ah, yes, I was about to point that out, "[" is an alias for the "test" command that requires a closing "]" and so requires a space between it and it's argument.
-Edvard (May 03, 2014, 04:52 PM)
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Those sneaky *NIX wizards!

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