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Bora George
Asked: 2011-12-18 07:19:26 +0800 CST

How can I make my shell scripts run in a new console automatically?

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Hello I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and learning the ROS (Robot Operating System) which means that I enter quite a lot of shell commands

I am currently creating some BASH script files to make my work easier, but there are certain commands which must be run in another console.

So please tell me what commands I must write in my .sh file so that it can run it's commands in one window,then start another window in which it run other commands, but from the same .sh file

Or they could be in different .sh files they just need to run in different consoles.

bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You could run your script in another terminal emulator window, I suppose gnome-terminal with the command

    gnome-terminal -x ./script

    You could simplify the process defining a function in your ~/.bashrc

    start() {
  gnome-terminal -x "$@"
}

    where can choose the name you prefer instead of start. You use the function in this way

    start ./command arg1 arg2

    (you need to restart the terminal for the shell to know about the new function).

    As you can see, there is a little problem, the window closes once the command terminates. To avoid this you could wrap your command in a shell script and add a last line with a read command:

    #!/bin/sh
# script

./command arg1 arg2
read answer

    Then when you call

    start ./script

    it will not closes, waiting for your input.

    Unfortunately, It is difficult to automate this in the start function.

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