The question I would ask myself in your place is if I'd rather do without or rewrite my scripts than trying to adapt many unfamiliar scripts that may break again with the next update.

Most everything in terms of desktop shell replacements died out around Windows 7's release.

@mitu Seems a bit odd to launch a shell script for the sole purpose of launching another shell script, but it works. Thank you

@mitu said in SFTP ASCII Transfers Between RetroPie and Windows not working as expected:

I recommend using Notepad++ and choosing Unix newlines as default line endings.

Will use Notepad++ from now on. Resolved that head-ache for me. Thanks.

@cyperghost Hey, thanks! I'll take a look at them ;)

@nemecyys said in runcommand-onstart.sh pass data to python script:

Because im running this python script every time i run onstart.sh or onend.sh does that mean there will be LOTS of instances of it running?

On normal typical usage, no. The runcommand script calls the onstart one and waits it finish. The way you're invoking your python script in onstart also makes it wait the python script to finish.

Then, from what I'm seeing from the codes, I believe that there won't be lots of instances running.

With a Bash Script:
Would this also be the case?
Would i want to exit the bash after running and achieving the desired result?

There's no need.

*also, any links to some of meleu's coding goodness?

You can find links to some of my scripts on the "useful topics" post (link on my signature). You can find many other useful info there. ;-)

Oh, as @cyperghost said, we usually use this thread to talk about shell scripting.

By the way, you asked above and I'm not sure if you got an answer: the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file is deleted after a shutdown/reboot.

@darksavior Okay then.

Well, here it is! A new version of RetroPie Shell Script Boilerplate.

This is a template for building shell scripts for RetroPie.

I've added examples of the following dialog boxes:

--infobox --yesno --msgbox --menu

All the dialogs can be found at utils/dialogs.sh

I've also moved some functions to utils/base.sh.