Shell command to open a terminal that runs a command
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Julie
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Julie -
Julie -
Good evening,
I am looking to code a small shell script that, when launched, will open several new terminals that will each run a command to display useful data for my work (hence the interest in keeping the "parent" terminal clean). However, I don't know what option to use with xterm to pass a command to the newly opened terminal.
Do you have any idea? Is this even possible? Thank you in advance for your time, I am just starting out with shell scripting.
Configuration: Linux / Chrome 20.0.1132.17
I am looking to code a small shell script that, when launched, will open several new terminals that will each run a command to display useful data for my work (hence the interest in keeping the "parent" terminal clean). However, I don't know what option to use with xterm to pass a command to the newly opened terminal.
Do you have any idea? Is this even possible? Thank you in advance for your time, I am just starting out with shell scripting.
Configuration: Linux / Chrome 20.0.1132.17
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Hi,
man xterm
-e program [ arguments ... ]
specifies the program (and its command line arguments) that should be launched in the xterm window. This option also sets the window title and icon name to the base name of the running program if neither -T nor -n are specified on the command line. It must be the last option on the xterm command line.
The -e option followed by the name of the command to execute will launch that command in the new window.
You can do something like:
#!/bin/sh
xterm -e "command 1" &
xterm -e "command 2" &
xterm -e "command 3" &
man xterm
-e program [ arguments ... ]
specifies the program (and its command line arguments) that should be launched in the xterm window. This option also sets the window title and icon name to the base name of the running program if neither -T nor -n are specified on the command line. It must be the last option on the xterm command line.
The -e option followed by the name of the command to execute will launch that command in the new window.
You can do something like:
#!/bin/sh
xterm -e "command 1" &
xterm -e "command 2" &
xterm -e "command 3" &
Edit: After a few attempts, I realize that the open terminal only serves to execute a program and then closes. In my case, it needs to stay open since one of the commands to run is, for example:
cat /u/shared/$1/public/* | grep -n ERROR
So I need to have a response, which is not the case here since the terminal closes once the command is executed.