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

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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. :)
>


> 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
>
>
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