How to launch a terminal from script and another script to run in terminal

Question

I installed the Hadoop 2.7.2 independently in single node mode.

I created a testfile.txt successfully with this content

Hello world in HDFS!

But when I want to append lines to this file with this command:

bin/hadoop fs -appendToFile extraFile.txt testfile.txt

it throws this error:

appendToFile: Not Supported

I'm using ubuntu server 14.04 on my virtual machine. Any comment is appreciated :)

Solution 1

Run a non-interactive shell that runs your script and then replaces itself with an interactive bash shell.

gnome-terminal --working-directory="$HOME/randomdir" -x bash -c './randomscript; exec bash' &

Solution 2

gnome-terminal --working-directory=randomdir

Is this what you are looking for?

By the way, man gnome-terminal should help :)

EDIT:

However, if you want to keep the terminal open you can do this:

gnome-terminal --working-directory=randomdir -e COMMAND #launch the command - terminal will close
gnome-terminal --working-directory=randomdir #open a new terminal with the same default path

These 2 commands added in your script.

Comments

[mx7]

you might looking for askubuntu.com/questions/3359/…

[ike]

This is not what I'm looking for, I want to launch another script in the newly opened terminal, and keep the terminal open after that script exits.

[mx7]

from the OP "By the way I tried cd ~/rockbox && gnome-terminal -e "./randomscript.sh"& and that opened the script, but closed the terminal after the script exited."

[ike]

This works, but I like the other answer better because it keeps the same window, and the other commands in the file still run with their solution.(I couldn't get your's to do that, even with adding the &'s at the end of lines.)

[ike]

I got it to run like I wanted it to by gnome-terminal --working-directory=randomdir -e ./randomscript.sh && gnome-terminal --working-directory=randomscript&