So I know if I type gnome-terminal or xterm, a new window will be popped out. Then I checked the man page for these two, nothing relevant found.
Then I noticed under Mac you can do it with the program open. But it seems under Linux it's not that trivial.
Does anyone have experience?
Update: The new recommended syntax is:
gnome-terminal -- bash -c "<my command or script>; exec bash"
$HOME: bash -c "cd $HOME/; ..."If you look at man gnome-terminal (and gnome-terminal --help) the options -x and -e are available (and it is not explicitly written they are deprecated) but all examples there are given by the syntax provided above.
I would prefer to use the option -x that provides more reliable work than -e:
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "<my command or script>; exec bash"
The option -x means --execute - the remainder of the command line inside the terminal.
And our command is bash -c "<commands>". That means we execute a new bash shell, which should run some -c "<commands>".
We have two separated (by semicolon ; == new line) <commands>.
The first command <my command or script> will execute that we want.
The second command exec bash has a meaning - remain open the current gnome-terminal window. There are another possible approaches to do that. In the current case the command exec will replace the current process image with a new process image - in other words it will 'kill' the current process and will execute a new (bash) under the current PID.
More examples of usage of this format:
You can simply do CTRLALTT and you will open a new terminal.
Try gnome-terminal -e "bash -c command;bash"
Another approach that will keep the window open is to use xterm:
xterm -hold -e cmd
The hold option keeps the window open.
