Run a shell script in new terminal from current terminal

Question

How do you run a shell script in a new terminal in Linux from a terminal like "start test.bat" in Windows, also it should be working in the console mode.

Answer 1

Here's a simple example to get you started:

To write a shell script, do this on your command prompt:

echo -e '#!/bin/sh\n echo "hello world"' > abc.sh 

This writes:

#!/bin/sh echo "hello world" 

To a file called abc.sh

Next, you want to set it to executable by:

chmod +x abc.sh 

Now, you can run it by:

./abc.sh 

And you should see:

hello world 

On your terminal.

To run it in a new terminal, you can do:

gnome-terminal -x ./abc.sh 

or, if it's xterm:

xterm -e ./abc.sh 

Here's a list of different terminal emulators.

Alternatively, you just run it in your current terminal, but background it instead by:

./abc.sh & 

Answer 2

I came here wanting to figure out how to make a script spawn a terminal and run it self in it, so for those who want to do that I figured out this solution:

if [ ! -t 0 ]; then # script is executed outside the terminal?   # execute the script inside a terminal window with same arguments   x-terminal-emulator -e "$0" "$@"   # and abort running the rest of it   exit 0 fi