[SOLVED] Run commands inside a terminal opened from a terminal....

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 06:50 AM

Code:

gnome-terminal ; ls
gnome-terminal && ls
gnome-terminal > ls

The connectors here always execute 'ls' in the original terminal, not the new terminal. How can I force the ls command to execute inside the new terminal?

Thanks!

jamison20000e · 06-16-2014, 07:00 AM

I'm sure someone will be along with an answer for you I know Ctrl+Shift+N opens a new Konsole for me but I don't know if Bash can do key strokes?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133065

pan64 · 06-16-2014, 07:17 AM

just read the man page of gnome-terminal, it is the first switch: -e or -x can be used: gnome-terminal -e ls
the only problem the terminal will be closed as soon as your command completed, therefore you will not be able to see the result.
If you want to keep that terminal open you need to white a script...

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 08:32 AM

Here is test.sh:

Code:

gnome-terminal -e cd ~/Music/my-music/ && ls *.txt *.ogg && sleep 20s

New terminal opens with a red ribbon at the top saying "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal" and "Failed to execute child process 'cd' (no such file or directory)"

pan64 · 06-16-2014, 08:35 AM

yes, because the command you entered cannot be executed directly. That's why you need to put it into a script and you need to execute that script by that -e.

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 08:50 AM

Hmmm I'm still getting an error. I'm screwing something up.

I try

Code:

bash /home/test.sh

test.sh is

Code:

gnome-terminal -e echo luck

and I get

Code:

Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option -r

in the new terminal

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 08:53 AM

Also tried running the script after -e

Code:

gnome-terminal -e bash /home/test.sh

same problem

jpollard · 06-16-2014, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlemagne-is-my-son

Here is test.sh:

Code:

gnome-terminal -e cd ~/Music/my-music/ && ls *.txt *.ogg && sleep 20s

New terminal opens with a red ribbon at the top saying "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal" and "Failed to execute child process 'cd' (no such file or directory)"

Almost right. The problem is insufficient quoting:

Code:

gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "cd ~/Music/my-music/ && ls *.txt *.ogg && sleep 20s"'

The -e takes only one parameter - a string to be interpreted.

bash -c requires the sequence of commands to be a string (remember, the first level quoting has been removed by the shell already), thus another level of quoting (here, using the " character).

You can also accomplish this by escaping the nested quotes, but it gets tricky to count the number of levels you go - and each time the string gets evaluated (or the remaining parts of the string) you have to add another level of escapes...

this is why it is easier to put the sequence of commands in a script, make it executable, then you can reference that script as the command to interpret.

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 10:36 AM

Your script works like gang busters, but my script is still not working.

First, I want to switch to a fresh work station, so wmctrl -s 2
in this new station, I want a new terminal opened
I want this new terminal to run a bunch of programs. This is what I've got as an alias command:

Code:

alias muse='wmctrl -s 2 && gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup" && "ls ~/Music/my-music/*.txt" && "echo "What song do you want to open?"" && "read name" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/audacity-notes.txt" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/$name.txt" && "audacity /home/matt/Music/my-music/project-files/$name.aup"''

but I get this:

Code:

bash: alias: -c: not found
bash: alias: ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup: not found

jpollard · 06-16-2014, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlemagne-is-my-son

Your script works like gang busters, but my script is still not working.

First, I want to switch to a fresh work station, so wmctrl -s 2
in this new station, I want a new terminal opened
I want this new terminal to run a bunch of programs. This is what I've got as an alias command:

Code:

alias muse='wmctrl -s 2 && gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup" && "ls ~/Music/my-music/*.txt" && "echo "What song do you want to open?"" && "read name" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/audacity-notes.txt" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/$name.txt" && "audacity /home/matt/Music/my-music/project-files/$name.aup"''

but I get this:

Code:

bash: alias: -c: not found
bash: alias: ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup: not found

Now you have too many quotes...

the -c option of bash takes a single string. what you have is 4 strings separated by && - which breaks the sequence for gnome terminal... Only the first string would be passed to bash.

the sequence you are trying to pass is:

Code:

"ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup" && "ls ~/Music/my-music/*.txt" && "echo "What song do you want to open?"" && "read name" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/audacity-notes.txt" && "gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/$name.txt" && "audacity /home/matt/Music/my-music/project-files/$name.aup"

Yet the string sent to bash is "ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup". After that it is wrong.

What you have to have instead is:

Code:

"ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup && ls ~/Music/my-music/*.txt && echo \"What song do you want to open?\" && read name && gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/audacity-notes.txt && gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/$name.txt && audacity /home/matt/Music/my-music/project-files/$name.aup"

Which is why it would be easier to make a script (I'm going to call it "playscript.sh":

Code:

#!/bin/bash
ls ~/Music/my-music/project-files/*.aup
ls ~/Music/my-music/*.txt
echo "What song do you want to open?"
read name
gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/audacity-notes.txt
gnome-open /home/matt/Music/my-music/$name.txt
audacity /home/matt/Music/my-music/project-files/$name.aup

Then you can invoke it as:

[code]
gnome-terminal -e <path to script>/playscript.sh

I can understand your attempt at creating an alias for this... but your quoting is again slipping-

Code:

alias muse='wmctrl -s 2 && gnome-terminal -e '

is what you are creating an alis of... after that, it has mismatched quotes. Again, it is MUCH easier to get the quoting right when you keep things as simple as possible.

charlemagne-is-my-son · 06-16-2014, 12:38 PM

Thanks. I got it.