From: Barry Margolin on
In article <1178144095.984410.311300(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
cpurvis3(a)csc.com wrote:

> close ... I need to run with the following (insert the shell cmd after
> the "-e"):
>
> > dtterm -e ksh "ls -la;ksh"
>
> or ...
>
> > dtterm -e ksh "ls -la;read"

ksh's argument is the name of a script file to run. If you want to give
it a command line to execute, you have to use the -c option:

dtterm -e ksh -c "ls -la; read"

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