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vladimir pavloski
Asked: 2019-05-03 15:28:40 +0800 CST

Shortcut to open xfce4-terminal and run 'history' command on Xubuntu 16.04.6

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I'm trying to set a keyboard shortcut to open xfce4-terminal and run history(command) and keeping terminal open, but so far no avail, I read some tutorials then I tried xfce4-terminal -e "/bin/bash -c history; exec bash" , but nothing happens (I noticed the terminal opens and closes quickly) how to get it working? thks, vladi OS: Xubuntu 16.04.6

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have to enable history separately in a non-interactive shell:

    xfce4-terminal --hold -x bash -c 'HISTFILE=~/.bash_history; set -o history; history'

    Reference

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  2. Have you tried --hold ?

    According to their doc, this should work

    xfce4-terminal --command "command_with_args" --hold

    In your case

    xfce4-terminal --command "history" --hold

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