complete command parsing, verb, basic execution

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/external.rs b/src/external.rs
index a2911a3..76ba479 100644
--- a/src/external.rs
+++ b/src/external.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 use std::process::Command;
 use std::path::{PathBuf};
 
+
+pub fn execute(exec: &str) {
+    let mut tokens = exec.split_whitespace();
+    match tokens.next() {
+        Some(exe)   => {
+            Command::new(exe).args(tokens).spawn().expect("failed to start external exectutable");
+        },
+        None        => {
+            // FIXME panic?
+        },
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn open_file(path: &PathBuf) {
     Command::new("xdg-open")
         .arg(String::from(path.to_string_lossy()))