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

[Donald Talbert]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 06:13 -0400, Amrit Pal Pathak wrote:
> 
> 
> 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  

Anytime buddy. :)

-- 
Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>