Running bash command by default installed terminal

D3vil0p3r · 2023-04-11 21:16:16

Hello, I'm writing a simple script that should run bash command running a specific subcommand, and I would like that this bash command is run on the installed default terminal. My idea was something similar to:

<terminal executable> -- bash -c "echo 'Hello World' "

Is there a way to implement this? Is it possible to use a method similar to "xdg-open" in order to run the default terminal application?

seth · 2023-04-12 06:37:29

There's no standard for the "default" terminal emulator.
Some environments will interpret $TERMINAL but you can't even rely on that.

Of course, since you're writing the invocation, you can use whatever you want and make sure that's exported.

${TERMINAL:-xterm} -e bash -c 'echo foo; sleep 5'

D3vil0p3r · 2023-04-12 13:39:49

seth wrote:

There's no standard for the "default" terminal emulator.
Some environments will interpret $TERMINAL but you can't even rely on that.
Of course, since you're writing the invocation, you can use whatever you want and make sure that's exported.
${TERMINAL:-xterm} -e bash -c 'echo foo; sleep 5'

What does "${TERMINAL:-xterm}" do?

seth · 2023-04-12 13:42:04

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manua … nsion.html

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#1 2023-04-11 21:16:16

Running bash command by default installed terminal

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Re: Running bash command by default installed terminal

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Re: Running bash command by default installed terminal

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