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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:07:17 +0200
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Subject:	Re: Using nosleep with wrappers
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Angelo Graziosi  wrote:
> In my .bashrc I have something like this:
>
> xf()
> {
>     LANG=''\
>     /usr/bin/xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default \
>         "$@" 2>/dev/null
> }
>
> but, trying
>
> $ nosleep xf
> nosleep: Error: failed to execute command: xf
>
> The same occurs for
>
> picasa()
> {
>     TEMP=/home/$USER/Temp TMP=/home/$USER/Temp \
>     cyg-wrapper.sh "/WinXP/Programmi/Google/Picasa3/Picasa3.exe" \
>         "$@" 2>/dev/null
> }
>
>
> Is there some tricks to have nosleep working with wrappers like the above?

Hi Angelo,
You'll probably have to invoke bash explicitly; something like this (not tested)

nosleep bash -c xf

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