using CLI app functions, outside of terminal: how to?

[jsabarese]

hi. i'm interested in peforming some basic CLI stuff--- just to start an app really, but i want to do it in particular from Bluefish.

If you're a web developer, of if you've modified HTML to any degree in linux, chances are you probably are familiar w/ bluefish. if not, then here's the deal...

(i may get the tech terms wrong, so forgive me if i do!)
bluefish allows for the execution of commands via a Preferences > External Apps > dialogue. from there, i can do simple stuff like "firefox %s&" which will launch FF w/ the current page in focus in Bluefish to open in FF. this is cool cause i can set it to do whatever i what w/ which ever app.

but, i want to create a custom button, as w/ the browsers, but instead to activate the coldfusion server i've installed. from the CLI, this would be :
@localhost bin]$ cd /opt/jrun4/bin/
then, on a new line:
@localhost bin]$ ./jrun start cfusion

so, how do i create this series of commands from w/in bluefish? i feel like i'm stuck at the two-separate-functions junction. for example, i tried putting it all in one (yes, i have no idea-- just trial and error, w/ emphasis on error...) only ommitting the "CD" part, like so, :
@localhost bin]$ /opt/jrun4/bin/ ./jrun start cfusion

needless to say, it didn't work as i expected. how should i have composed that line?

[wintersm]

/opt/jrun4/bin/jrun start cfusion

or you could create a script, the contents wouldbe

#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/jrun4/bin/
./jrun start cfusion

and run that script..

[jsabarese]

hey, thanks!! that's good to know...

the script thing... now that's interesting, and of course i've seen it invariably amongst apps i've installed-- or "WINE" apps. doing a "double-click" in Konqueror might invite me to open in a text editor or "run" the script. and so i see what happens in both cases, and i see the simple beauty in that power.

my confusion then would be-- how do i do this so the O/S , or in this case, so BlueFish would know to run that script?

sorry-- this goes off the specific subject of bluefish, but i guess it does remain consistent w/ thread title-- so, i began to think of how i might eliminate this starting from BF thing altogether (preferrably) and run a script to start ColdFusion automatically when i log-into GNOME or KDE... many cool things i've considered trying ... i suppose i'm afraid of the frustration which may likely ensue... but i was thinking this would be done perhaps w/ a cronjob... and again, i'm not sure if i'm ready to chew that in the middle of the other thing i'm trying to do currently-- but it is a latent-priority, if you will-- the learning of the cron that is. i've gotten mixed ideas of it-- that it's easy, and the opposite. right now... if i dont already "know it"... i'll probably wait.

but-- back to reality-- if i want to do the scrpt route from w/in BlueFish-- considering that i can launch Firefox by simply typing in "firefox" or "firefox %s&" as above... how then do i best execute the script version? -- meaning-- do i have to launch something which points to the script, as in "APP %sh" ... or something pointing to an app, pointing to the script?

thank you!!

[wintersm]

the gnome-session application, found under the user settings menu allows you to specify applcations to run on log-in, or in bluefish just put the full path to the script or application.. cant tell you exact menu names as i am at work now and having to use windoz

[jsabarese]

just wanted to reply to say thanks for being so helpful!

edit: hey, it just occurred to me upon reading the options under the session manager menus...

if i can start this upon startup... what about the idea of starting it as a service-- as in Run Leve 5 and Run Level 3... i really know very little about it... but, i have tweaked stuff in there to activate such things as MySQL and Apache... so, it seems it would only make sense that this might be how i'd want to-- at least in the case of a Web Application Server, such as CFMX