Bash | Auto-open terminals running custom commands

README.md

Auto-open terminal tabs in Gnome

Features

• Custom titles
• Default commands executed on them
• No need to modify .bashrc
• Tested in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.04

Installation & usage

• Copy the contents of autotty.sh to a file in your system
• Give it execution rights: chmod +x autotty.sh
• Edit it!
  • Some default tabs are already added to the script. You can use them, modify them, remove them or mimick them to specify new ones until you are satisfied.
• Run it with Bash: bash autotty.sh
• Voilá!

autotty.sh

#!/bin/bash

join_arguments(){
  for i in "$@"
  do
    echo -n $i" ; "
  done
}

terminal_title(){
  echo "echo -ne \"\033]0;"$1"\007\""
}

terminal_commands(){
  local commands=$(join_arguments "$@")
  echo "/bin/bash -c '$commands'"
}

TITLE_REDIS=$(terminal_title 'redis-server')
TITLE_MONGO=$(terminal_title 'mongod')
TITLE_WORKSPACE=$(terminal_title 'Workspace')

COMMAND_REDIS='redis-server'
COMMAND_MONGO="mongod --dbpath=${HOME}/.mongodbdata"

WD_WORKSPACE="${HOME}/workspace/"

TAB_INIT_REDIS="$(terminal_commands "$TITLE_REDIS" "$COMMAND_REDIS")"
TAB_INIT_MONGO="$(terminal_commands "$TITLE_MONGO" "$COMMAND_MONGO")"
TAB_INIT_PROJECT="$(terminal_commands "$TITLE_WORKSPACE" "exec /bin/bash -i")"

gnome-terminal \
  --tab -e "${TAB_INIT_REDIS}" \
  --tab -e "${TAB_INIT_MONGO}" \
  --tab -e "${TAB_INIT_PROJECT}" --working-directory="${WD_WORKSPACE}" \
  /