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Alexander Mills
Asked: 2018-12-15 16:32:28 +0800 CST

Open terminal and run command, from the command line [duplicate]

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I am looking for a way to launch a terminal session from the command line on Ubuntu, something like this:

#/usr/bin/env bash

terminal -c 'node server.js'

if there is some cross-platform tool that also works on MacOS that'd be nice.

So I tried this:

gnome-terminal -- 'echo "foo" | bash'

and I got this:

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And when I try this:

gnome-terminal --tab -- echo 'ts-node /home/oleg/codes/typeaware/doc-gen/lang/typescript/api/src/.test/express.test.ts' | bash

nothing happens, the gnome-terminal never opens.

command-line gnome-terminal bash gnome-shell

1 Answers

  1. Your initial command, gnome-terminal -- 'echo "foo" | bash', attempts to run a program named literally echo␣"foo"␣|␣bash, which you most likely don't have on your system.

    The correct syntax would be gnome-terminal -- sh -c 'echo "foo" | bash', but it would not help, unless you actually have an executable named foo. You can see that the syntax is correct by trying

    gnome-terminal -- sh -c 'echo "date; sleep 2" | bash'

    But this is just a very complicated way of saying

    gnome-terminal -- bash -c 'date; sleep 2'

    As for the intended command, it probably should be

    gnome-terminal --tab -- bash -c 'ts-node /home/oleg/codes/typeaware/doc-gen/lang/typescript/api/src/.test/express.test.ts'
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