[Pan-users] Re: Supplying parameters to applications

[Duncan]

Lionel B <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:00:42
+0000:

>> AFAIK it's not possible to have text /after/ the URL, but you could
>> always cheat :-)  Use a shell script like this:
>> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /path/to/opera --remote 'openURL($1,new-page)'
>> 
>> For Pan's preference, just enter the script's path.
> 
> Nice idea - I'll give it a go.

It /is/ a nice idea.  I've used it for a number of things (not 
necessarily pan related) myself.  Any time there's an "impedance 
mismatch" between what's expected by one app, and what another can spit 
out.  It's especially useful when uses the command line and the other 
uses STDIN/STDOUT (so pipes). =8^)

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