How to execute a command in newly open terminal(gnome-terminal) in scripting ?

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 05:05 -0400, amritpal pathak wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Donald Talbert
> > <donaldtalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 07:02 -0400, amritpal pathak wrote:
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Jordon Bedwell
> >         <jordon at envygeeks.com>
> >         > wrote:
> >         >         On 6/30/2011 5:46 AM, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> >         >         > You might need to do it on the same line, like:
> >         >         > gnome-terminal -e "ls -l"
> >         >          it couldn't help.It is executing the command in
> >         same terminal
> >         >         even it is not opening new one despite
> >         "gnome-termial" was
> >         >         opening a new terminal at least.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >   Thanks
> >
> >
> >         I might be mistaken on what your trying to accomplish but
> >         heres a way to
> >         do this. You will need to 'screen' package so type, then read
> >         the man
> >         page on it, very easy to use.
> >
> >         sudo apt-get install screen
> >          done.
> >         Heres how you do this. (A snip of code from our scripts)
> >
> >         screen -AdmS server /srv/serv/linux-start.sh
> >
> >         you would type...
> >
> >         screen -AdmS windowname directorytoscript-or-whatyouwanttorun
> >           windowname is for what?
> >      is it user-choice to give a name what he wants?
> >      windowname is name to new opened terminal?
> >
> >
> >         screen is a very very useful program, be sure to read the man
> >         page. Its
> >          not hard to learn and will help you with bash shells.
> >
> >      Thank you very much.
> >       I am newbie to bash scripting.I tried your give code but it did
> > not work.It again did not open a new terminal and even did not ran the
> > last command.See the my code below.
> >  May be i am wrong somewhere.
> >  This is a a.sh file.
> >
> >   echo "what is your name"
> > read b
> > echo "your name is $b "
> > screen -AdmS try sudo wget
> > http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.3/gateway-1.4.3.tar.gz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         amritpalpathakgne.wordpress.com
>
> It ran, type 'screen -ls' you should see a screen labeled "try".
> With screen the 'd' flag means detach the screen so your script can
> continue. So for a more desired effect maybe you could try removing the
> d.
>
> screen -AdmS try sudo wget
> http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.3/gateway-1.4.3.tar.gz
>
> But I see what your trying to do now...
>
> See if this does what you want it to... if it does feel free to remove
> screen by typing 'sudo apt-get auto-remove screen'
>
> gnome-terminal -e 'wget
> http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.3/gateway-1.4.3.tar.gz'
>
> Let me know if this works for you.
>  Rocks.......:)

    its is working.
    But i tried two commands first is running well in 1st newly open
terminal but second is not.It is showing the 2nd new terminal is appear for
a moment and then it disappair.
why?

 see the code please.

echo "what is your name"
read b
echo "your name is $b "
gnome-terminal -e 'wget
http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.3/gateway-1.4.3.tar.gz'
gnome-terminal -e 'sudo smsbox -v 1 kannel/kannel.conf'

Thanks you very much

amritpalpathakgne.wordpress.com
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