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Daniyal Javani
Asked: 2014-10-22 00:07:08 +0800 CST

Custom keyboard shortcut to lauch a terminal and run a command without exit in the end [duplicate]

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I want to create a shortcut to run a command with keyboard shortcut But when I press "alt+ctrl+a" terminal open and immediately close.

Please help me to edit below command for prevent from close after ran it.

gnome-terminal -e "vnstat -ru -i wlan0 -h"

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try it with this command instead:

    gnome-terminal -e "bash -c 'vnstat -ru -i wlan0 -h; exec bash'"

    The exec bash part at the end causes to start a bash that replaces the current shell (also a bash).

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  2. create a keyboard shortcut with the following command : gnome-terminal . Thats it.

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