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Bash script to open a terminal and cd to a variable directory

I want to write a bash script that opens a gnome-terminal in a directory in ~/Documents/ according to the argument passed to it (e.g. ./open.sh notes opens the terminal in ~/Documents/notes/)

How would I go about that? I know gnome-terminal --working-directory=[directory] does something similar, but it doesn't accept strings so I don't know if it can be used in this case.

Solution

  • you can try this;

    #!/bin/bash
workDir="/home/user/Documents/$1"
if [ ! -d "$workDir" ]; then
    echo "directory not found, check your path"
else
    gnome-terminal --working-directory="$workDir"
fi

    Example; 

    ./open.sh notes

    this open a new terminal in ~/Documents/notes