On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 21:10 -0700, perryh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > "rubenvb" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I know that to execute a win32 executable, I need to do: > > "wine some_executable.exe" ... is there some hybrid wine/bash > > shell that can run win32 executables without extra arguments? > > If you have only a limited number of such executables to deal with, > you can use aliases, something along the lines of (untested): > > alias some_executable='cd /path/to/correct/directory ; > wine some_executable.exe "$@"' > > (That's supposed to be all on one line, and the syntax may not be > exactly right, but you get the idea. "man bash" for the details.) > Or write a small wrapper script which can be run from the command line or made the target of a Gnome launcher: #!/bin/bash export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.prefixname cd $WINEPREFIX/path/to/correct/directory wine some_executable.exe "$@" Make it executable and put it in a directory on the search path. I use $HOME/bin, adding the line "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" to $HOME/.bash_profile so the shell can always find scripts in $HOME/bin. Use the script wherever you'd use "wine exename arguments". Martin
