bash scripts execution in different terminals

Question

I have bash scripts, which I execute from new terminal every time I want to start my project

celery.sh

activate () {
     . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
}
activate
cd projectname
celery -A projectname worker -l info

flower.sh

activate () {
     . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
}
activate
cd projectname
celery -A projectname flower --port=5555

start.sh

activate () {
     . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
}
activate
cd projectname
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

this scripts are used on my local machine, and i execute them with 3 different commands each command in new terminal

./celery.sh

./flower.sh

./start.sh

I found it boring, and redundant that i'm forced to open this 3 terminals each time.

My goal is to create one script ./ultimatestart.sh which will start all of this three scripts, each of which should be opened in its personal terminal

Answer update, thanks to Olaf Kock i found out the solution for my MacOs and zsh terminal

i have two options, first which will start these three scripts celery.sh, flower.sh, start.sh

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth &&
./celery.sh"'
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth &&
./start.sh"'
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth &&
./flower.sh"'

i also found it redundant, because now, i have 4 scripts, and with this update, i can start all these 3 terminals from one script

ultimatestarter.sh

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "activate () { 
                  . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
                  } 
activate 
cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/projectname
celery -A projectname worker -l info"'

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "activate () { 
                  . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
                  } 
activate 
cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/projectname
celery -A projectname flower --port=5555"'

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "activate () { 
                  . /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/venv/bin/activate
                  } 
activate 
cd /Users/oleg/Desktop/auth/projectname
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"'

Olaf Kock · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-01 07:47:20Z

1

figure out, which terminal you'd like to start (I'm using xterm as an example)
check your terminal's man page for the actual command to start it with an argument (optionally: To stay open once the command finished)
execute the commands in the background (&)

For xterm this might be something like

xterm -e /bin/bash -ls -c "./celery.sh" &
xterm -e /bin/bash -ls -c "./flower.sh" &
xterm -e /bin/bash -ls -c "./start.sh" &

Sprinkle in pause, if necessary.

answered Aug 1, 2022 at 7:47

Olaf Kock

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oruchkin Over a year ago

can you help with figuring out this command for zsh terminal? If i do the same with zsh, zsh -e /bin/bash -ls -c "./celery.sh" it returns error /bin/bash:1: command not found: \M-J\M-~\M-:\M->

oruchkin Over a year ago

is it neccesary to use & symbol? in my case, it works without it

Olaf Kock Over a year ago

isn't zsh a shell (e.g. alternative to bash) rather than a terminal application (that would run the shell)? For me, the same command works well if I use KDE's konsole to stand in for xterm

oruchkin Over a year ago

i'm not sure about the difference

Olaf Kock Over a year ago

If you replace /bin/bash with /bin/zsh it might work. Otherwise check where zsh is installed: which zsh.

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