[CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 3 11:04:06 UTC 2011
From: Pete O'Connell <pedrooconnell at gmail.com>
> Hi I am trying to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window like above. I
> want to run a command for each tab within the body of the above command. AAA and
> BBB are both profiles I have created and also predefined environment variable on
> my system (each representing a path to a folder). The code I was hoping would
> work was something like:
>
> "gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=AAA -e='ls AAA'
> --tab-with-profile=BBB -e='ls
> BBB'"
>
> in order to list the folder contents within each tab, but no dice.
I think the problem is more that it exits right away and does not seem to accept chained commands with ; or &&...
Try with a full script with loops or something like watch:
gnome-terminal --tab -e "watch ls /" --tab -e "watch ls /"
JD
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