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