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Is command line invocation of gnome-terminal to run more than one command possible?

Hello,

I am trying to learn how to pass more than a one-command startup for gnome-terminal.

I will give an example of what I'm trying to do here:

Code:

#! /bin/bash

#

#TODO write this for gnome and xterm



USAGE="

______________________________________________



${0##*/} [-x] [-g]



run midnight commander in a terminal window



-x        run in xterm (the default)

-g        run in gnome

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"



mcTerm () {

        sleep .5

        mc

        bash

}

export -f mcTerm



if [ "$1" = -h ] ; then echo "$USAGE" ; exit ; fi





if [ $# -lt 1 -o "$1" = -x ]; then

        (

        xterm -maximized -e mcTerm

        ) &

else

        (

        gnome-terminal -x mcTerm

        ) &

fi

The default option runs xterm without any problem.

However, running with the -g option to invoke gnome-terminal, I get a "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal" error.

This same error occurs if the gnome-terminal line is changed to

Code:

gnome-terminal -e mcTerm

Is there any way to pass more than one command on to gnome-terminal? I have tried various single and double quoting senarios and in a final attempt, I abstracted to an exported function all to no avail. Perhaps even though gnome-term is better at many things than xterm, xterm trumps it in this instance.

With thanks,
Narnie

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Sorry... I was a little too trigger happy, testing now

Quote:

Originally Posted by kbp (Post 3866406)

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Sorry... I was a little too trigger happy, testing now

hehe, np ;)

Doesn't seem to.... you could download the src to confirm though. Have you tried passing it a script ?

You could perhaps run bash from within the gnome-terminal, ie:

Code:

gnome-terminal -x bash -c "sleep .5; mc; bash"