How to call a new terminal from a shell script?

Question

I would like to know how to call a new terminal/xterm from within a command in the shell script, so that the shell script that called the other script keeps running non-stop.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you are using the GNOME as an interface, you can call a new terminal by calling the gnome-terminal, see an example:

#!/bin/bash

readonly OUTRO_SCRIPT="hello1.sh"; # O script a ser executado

chmod +x $OUTRO_SCRIPT;
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "./$OUTRO_SCRIPT; exec $SHELL";

#Continua a execução do script

echo "Foo... ";
echo "....Bar";

To call the Terminal Emulator - xterm:

xterm

Or:

x-terminal-emulator

If using XFCE as an interface, you can call the terminal by running the xfce4-terminal:

xfce4-terminal

If using KDE as an interface, you can call the terminal by running the Konsole:

Konsole

If using LXDE as an interface, you can call the terminal by running the LXTerminal:

lxterminal

Here you may find some information regarding Terminal that may be useful.

Answer 2

good night!

You don’t necessarily need another terminal, you can run multiple scripts at the same time.

Create the two script files, in the example I will inform as if it were index.sh and variables.sh

In the index.sh file will pull the variable.sh file as follows:

#!/bin/bash

. ./variaveis.sh # Executa e lê variáveis, funções, etc.

echo $var1

and in the file variables.sh will set all variables:

variables.sh

#!/bin/bash

var1="Esta variavel vem de outro arquivo!"

Both files must have execution permission so it will be necessary to run

chmod +x index.sh

chmod +x variables.sh

Run the index.sh file and see the magic happen.

$ ./index.sh

--EOF--

Answer 3

To call a background command (continue running non-stop), you use the command nohup [command] & to call the program or script.

 nohup [./script.sh] &

In this case, the exits of the program will continue to be shown in the terminal you called. In order for this not to happen, you must redirect it to /dev/null.

nohup [./scrip.sh] > /dev/null &

Or maybe you want to redirect to a log file.

nohup [./script.sh] > ./saida.log &

I hope I’ve helped.

Answer 4

Headlines

Simple, type the command line below:

gnome-terminal -- . /example.sh

Or if your script is in a specific location type the path:

gnome-terminal -- Desktop/. /example.sh

Caption:

"gnome-terminal" -> calls a new terminal

"--" -> have the script run

"Desktop/.exemplo.sh -> path to the script or program