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Open gnome terminal programmatically and execute commands after bashrc was executed

I try to build a little script to start my development environment. For that task I try to open a gnome terminal with several tabs where automatically the rails server and autotest is started. But 

gnome-terminal --tab -e "rails server" --tab --tab

does not work ("error creating the child process"). Also

gnome-terminal --tab -e "bash -c \"rails server\"" --tab --tab`

does not work. Any suggestions how to solve that problem?

Solution

  • Here is a nice trick we worked out at Superuser

    1. Add a eval "$BASH_POST_RC" to the end of your .bashrc

    2. Set the BASH_POST_RC environment variable for each tab to that command you like to execute, e.g.: gnome-terminal --working-directory="/home/zardoz/projects/my_rails_app" --tab -e 'bash -c "export BASH_POST_RC=\"rails server\"; exec bash"' --tab -e 'bash -c "export BASH_POST_RC=\"autotest\"; exec bash"'

    @Gilles: Thanks for that solution!