I'm very new to coding and software, so please stick with me. I am trying to execute a command in my Raspberry Pi terminal via a Python script. I want to be able to run this pi script from the Desktop. The command to execute is (rpi-deep-pantilt-env) pi@raspberrypi:~/rpi-deep-pantilt $ rpi-deep-pantilt detect So as you can see, I need to cd into rpi-deep-pantilt, then activate my virtual environment, then run the command all via the py script.
A simple shell script to do what you ask:
#!/bin/sh
cd "$HOME"/rpi-deep-pantilt
. ./rpi-deep-pantilt-env/bin/activate
./rpi-deep-pantilt detect "$@"
Most or all of this is probably unnecessary. I guess you could run
#!/bin/sh
d="$HOME"/rpi-deep-pantilt
exec "$d"/rpi-deep-pantilt-env/bin/python "$d"/rpi-deep-pantilt detect "$@"
though if your Python script has hardcoded file paths which require it to run in a specific directory, that's a bug which will prevent this from working.
The "$@" says to pass on any command-line arguments, so if you saved this script as pant, running pant blind mice will pass on the arguments blind and mice to your Python script. (Of course, if it doesn't accept additional command-line arguments after detect, this is unimportant, but I'd still pass them on so you can generate an error message, rather than have them be ignored as if they were not there.)