Restart dwm without closing programs

I'm trying dwm for the first time and according to the wiki you can recompile and restart dwm without closing any windows, using this script:
conky | while read line; do
xsetroot -name "$line"
done | while true; do
# Log stderror to a file
dwm 2> ~/.dwm.log; done
# No error logging
#dwm > /dev/null; done
The wiki says you can put this in a file, for example ~/bin/startdwm and start that through ~/.xinitrc
I'm a relative newbie, so could someone please elaborate a little on what I would have to do to get this to work? I tried writing a script and setting permissions and then using "exec startdwm" and "exec ~/bin/startdwm" in my ~/.xinitrc but this didn't work. Any help would be appreciated... having to restart my applications all the time is getting tiresome.

Thanks guys! I've been messing around with all these ideas and slowly but surely getting everything to where I want it.
Edit: Also especially thanks to firecat for the examples; they're just what I was looking for.
Last edited by shapirotechnics (2010-02-02 23:22:46)

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