open terminal run command python

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I am trying to open a terminal and run a command in it. I am using

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "exec bash; MY_COMMAND; exec bash" '")

This opens up a new terminal, but the command is not executed.

Asked By: user3571631

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Answer 1

The exec command replaces the currently running process with a new one, so if you have an exec in a list of commands to run, as soon as exec is run, nothing else will run. So you’re replacing 'bash -c "exec bash; MY_COMMAND; exec bash" ' with bash, and then nothing after the exec bash is running. Try this instead:

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "MY_COMMAND" '")

or if you need a terminal to stay open, try this:

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "MY_COMMAND; sleep 1000000" '")

of if you want the terminal to stay open and be in a bash shell, try this:

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "MY_COMMAND; bash" '")

Answered By: Christopher Shroba

Answer 2

Here we go…

command="python3 --version"
os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c ""+command+";bash"'")

That should do it…

Output:Python 3.6.4

And the output came into a new terminal….

Answered By: Subham Debnath

Answer 3

How to open and close that terminal after running the command

You can run this command in python file

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "sudo -S <<< Notadmin apt-get update && exit; exec bash"'")

In this command, we have multiple parameters

It will open a terminal first.
it will run simple and sudo commands as well.
after installing it will close automatically.

I m using Ubuntu 20.04 and using this command in my API. and it works fine.

**sudo -S <<< Notadmin apt-get update**

-S this parameter to read password ‘Notadmin‘ is my system password

This will work without sudo

os.system("gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "pip install python && exit; exec bash"'")

Answered By: Tanveer Ahmad

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