Execute Shell Commands from Program running in WINE

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UKnoHowWeDo picture UKnoHowWeDo · May 14, 2011 · Viewed 25.4k times · Source

I have a windows program running on Linux using WINE.

How can I call Linux shell commands from the windows program?

Answer

Adrian picture Adrian · Apr 14, 2015

With newer Wine versions (tested with Wine 1.7.38), you can run a Linux program from within Wine in the following way (here to launch gedit, as an example):

wineconsole cmd

...and from that wine console:

start /unix /usr/bin/gedit

If you want to launch a Linux program directly from within a Windows-application, the following line did work for me:

cmd /c start /unix /usr/bin/gedit

To test this, you can call directly on your Linux console this:

wine cmd /c start /unix /usr/bin/gedit

One important thing to Note: the program you want to start needs to have the executable bit set, otherwise calling it from Wine will fail!

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