I am trying to open a terminal and run a command in it. I am using
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"exec bash; MY_COMMAND; exec bash\" '")
This opens up a new terminal, but the command is not executed.
3 Answers
The exec command replaces the currently running process with a new one, so if you have an exec in a list of commands to run, as soon as exec is run, nothing else will run. So you're replacing 'bash -c \"exec bash; MY_COMMAND; exec bash\" ' with bash, and then nothing after the exec bash is running. Try this instead:
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"MY_COMMAND\" '")
or if you need a terminal to stay open, try this:
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"MY_COMMAND; sleep 1000000\" '")
of if you want the terminal to stay open and be in a bash shell, try this:
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"MY_COMMAND; bash\" '")
answered Apr 10, 2017 at 21:37
Christopher Shroba
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3 Comments
Sutirtha Kayal
Can you tell me how to open a tab and run "MY_COMMAND" instead of new terminal every time?
Tanveer
how to close that terminal?
Christopher Shroba
@sutirtha that would depend on the terminal and whether the terminal supports opening a new tab from within a session. See this answer for a way that may work.
Here we go...
command="python3 --version"
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \""+command+";bash\"'")
That should do it...
Output:Python 3.6.4
And the output came into a new terminal....
Comments
How to open and close that terminal after running the command
You can run this command in python file
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"sudo -S <<< Notadmin apt-get update && exit; exec bash\"'")
In this command, we have multiple parameters
- It will open a terminal first.
- it will run simple and sudo commands as well.
- after installing it will close automatically.
I m using Ubuntu 20.04 and using this command in my API. and it works fine.
**sudo -S <<< Notadmin apt-get update**
- -S this parameter to read password 'Notadmin' is my system password
This will work without sudo
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c \"pip install python && exit; exec bash\"'")
exec bash?MY_COMMAND; echo Hit ^C to close this terminal; while true; do sleep 2; done