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So in Terminal I created a new profile and I wanted it to start up to the desktop directory so I can just enter the filename I wanted to run instead of typing cd Desktop.

So this is what i did: Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Title and Command > Run a custom command instead of my shell and I put in the Custom command this cd Desktop. I thought if I put that then when I start the profile it will start as john@john:~/Desktop$ instead of john@john:~$ but when I start it I get this:

There was an error creating the child process for this terminal    Profile preferences
Failed to execute child process "cd" (No such file or directory)         Relaunch

Do you know how I can fix this?

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Change it to

sh -c "cd ~/Desktop; exec bash"

Regarding comment:

sh -c "cd ~/Desktop && perl slowloris.pl -dns; exec bash"
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  • Naa, it is just a simple command so marriage it out of the question. Just an upvote and accepted vote suffices :) – Rinzwind Jul 5 '13 at 21:59
  • You're awesome dude! Do you also know how to make it to start up like this 'john@john:~/Desktop$ perl slowloris.pl -dns', i'm currently doing pentest on my website and i really need fast shortcuts like that, thanks! – Jester Jul 5 '13 at 22:02
  • Sorry, i'm new to all this, i'm a windows guy that only recently moved on to Ubuntu :S i have no idea how to do that haha sorry – Jester Jul 5 '13 at 22:10
  • When i start the Terminal i want it to start up like this 'john@john:~/Desktop$ perl slowloris.pl -dns' without executing the command so i tried to do this 'sh -c "cd ~/Desktop;perl slowloris.pl -dns; exec bash" ' but it executed the command – Jester Jul 5 '13 at 22:18
  • Sorry for sounding like a noob haha – Jester Jul 5 '13 at 23:53

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