Gnome terminal watch tabs. A quick way to open a new terminal with multiple tabs for watch commands (specifically used in this case because the ruby-sass plugin for gulp is really slow).

gulp-watch.bash

#!/bin/bash

gnome-terminal -t "watch" --tab -e "bash -c 'gulp watch'" --tab -e "bash -c 'compass watch'"

Syntax:

-t sets terminal title
--tab begins a new tab within the window
-e starts a command in the tab (quoted)

In order to not run the command (e.g. "gulp watch") and have the terminal close we need to then run bash around the command.

bash executes the following command with bash
-c preface to the command
Then our command in single quotes (to avoid closing the quotes from the -e command)

End the quotes and add as many further --tab directives as you need.