So I'm pretty new to this and have a problem that I can't seem to fix. I'm writting a BASH script for a solaris system and need to have text enter into a console window. I've got so far:

#!/bin/bash
xterm
echo "text goes here"

When I run it I get the terminal window but the text going into another window. Nothing that I've found on this site helps me so far. If this is the wrong board, I'm sorry but I figured I'm about as newbie as it gets.

Welcome to the forum, cpski02

What you want to do is to have a script run in another terminal.

If you did xterm -e "text goes here", it would open up another terminal, echo the message, but then, alas, it would terminate immediately since it had done the job required.

Can you explain, what it is you want to achieve, since, given the information that you've given, you are trying to do something quite advanced, i.e., launch a terminal and then control it.

You do not have control over the terminal that you launch, but you are assuming that you do - that is wrong.

What you could try is, launch a terminal, get its "id" and then send a message to it.

But it would help if you explained to us what you are trying to achieve.

Machteld Garrells's guide to BASH scripting is the best I've seen.

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