Applications options

 

The -ca option

The rfm tool provide you a way of creating automatically new scripts corresponding to rfm commands you want to use currently forgetting the details of the rfm syntax. The scripts will be created into the .rpm/bin subdirectory of your home directory. For this reason we have added this directory into the first location of your path (have a look to the melissa page).

The -ca option is dedicated to the creation of such applications.

example: rfm -ca mytool -bg -daplxa /usr/bin/xterm -sl 1000

this command will create a script named mytool into the .rfm/bin directory. This script will do nothing but rfm -bg -daplxa /usr/bin/xterm[ -sl 1000 . Remark that we have explicitly given the full pass of the xterm application to make sure we will not call a script called xterm and located into the .rfm/bin directory. Remark also that the application name is unique. As a consequence, a declaration of an application with the same name will replace the previous definition and rfm will inform you of the replacement.

The declared application can be listed by using the -la option.