Ubuntu – How to write Bash script What is the command to open a terminal with two different tabed terminals and execute some commands separately tabs

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How to write Bash script to open a terminal with two tabs, and execute commands in both tabs?

for instance:
tab 1 opens skype
tab 2 opens chromium-browser

In the end, I want one more thing: write a bash script with my skype username and password and feed those to skype.

Thanks

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one terminal with two tabs:

gnome-terminal --tab --tab

use the -e switch to execute commands (or scripts):

gnome-terminal --tab -e "command1" --tab -e "command2"

(I don't think there is an easy way of feeding your credentials to skype via the terminal.)
Update: check w4YGcbTeIH's answer, skype allows giving credentials via the command line.

But beware, your credentials would be exposed and this should be avoided.

A script to open skype and chromium-browser would look like the following:

#!/bin/bash

skype --dbpath=<path> &
chromium-browser &

Put this code into myscript.sh and execute chmod +x myscript.sh (in a terminal) to make it executable.

About skype:

you can run skype without arguments (skype &) and it will load your default user profile ~/.Skype.
run it with --dbpath=<path> where <path> is your actual path of the Skype profile you want skype to load.

To run the script do one of the following:

open a terminal and execute ./myscript.sh
double click on the script and choose Run in the dialog.

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Use this variant of the script to do what you want:

#!/bin/bash

tab="--tab-with-profile=Default"
cmd="bash -c 'java RunRTSPClient';bash"
foo=""

for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
      foo+=($tab -e "$cmd")         
done

gnome-terminal "${foo[@]}"

exit 0

Generally, a script like this:

#!/bin/bash

tab="--tab"
cmd="bash -c '<command-line_or_script>';bash"
foo=""

for i in 1 2 ... n; do
      foo+=($tab -e "$cmd")         
done

gnome-terminal "${foo[@]}"

exit 0

will open a new terminal with n tabs executing the <command-line_or_script> in each tab. This can be very useful when you want for example to open a terminal with some tabs with the interpreter at a specific path (using cd /path in the above script).

Also, read man bash, this post and this post to understand the changes.

I have tested these scripts and they work.

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I would recommend using tmux with tmuxinator, it will does the job for you, and you can rely on terminator layouts too!

For terminator layout checkout mhnagaoka's answer here askubuntu too:

After setting up your layout, right-click on any terminal background and choose Preferences → Layouts tab and click on Add button.

Give it a name and hit Close.

This should create the mentioned ~/.config/terminator/config file.

Now you can start terminator using the saved layout using: terminator -l yourLayout (replace yourLayout with whatever you chose on step 2).

(optional) Edit the ~/.config/terminator/config file so that where it says [layouts] and nested below it [[yourLayout]], rename yourLayout to default and remove/rename the previous default layout. Now, when Terminator starts without any parameters, it will load your custom [[default]] layout!

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