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Douglas James Bock
Asked: 2020-02-14 01:34:49 +0800 CST

One-click: Open terminal, run commands, keep using the terminal

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I need a bash script that does the following:

  1. open a new terminal
  2. change to a specific directory
  3. run a command in that directory
  4. keep the terminal open for further use

Specifically I want to:

  1. open the konsole terminal
  2. change to /my/work/dir/
  3. inside /my/work/dir/, run source bin/activate
  4. after that I need to run further commands inside /my/work/dir/, e.g. ls

A very similar question was given the following answer for the script (adapted to my requirements):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
konsole --noclose --workdir /my/work/dir/ -e 'bash -c 'source bin/activate''

This does open a new terminal inside /my/work/dir/, but the terminal is not interactive. The

user@userMachine: /my/work/dir$

is missing that allows me to run further commands and anything I type (e.g. pwd) returns nothing, just new lines.

command-line bash konsole

2 Answers

  1. You need to specify what the terminal to do after executing the command source bin/activate. You want an active bash session so you need to run bash. In addition there is a mes with the quotes. So the script could be:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
konsole --noclose --workdir /my/work/dir/ -e 'bash -c "source bin/activate; exec bash"' &

    • & at the end is added in order to keep the main terminal usable, in case you are executing that script from other terminal window.

    • the exec command could be omitted, and you can use only bash.

    Here are few answers of similar questions, dedicated to gnome-terminal:

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  2. I am not able to comment, but from what I understand I may suggest

    #!/bin/bash
cd /my/work/dir/
source bin/activate
konsole
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