On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:09AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 2/26/20 10:48 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > If you're trying to pre-populate the input buffer of a shell in a newly > > launched terminal emulator, you're about to go down some very deep > > rabbit holes. I suggest you look at tmux or screen. Those may have > > some of the features you're looking for, if my guess is on target. > > A simpler solution if you (rhet.) just want to run a command > automatically in gnome-terminal and then wait for more commands, is, > instead of starting "bash" (or $SHELL) by default, specify that > gnome-terminal should run the command: > > bash --rcfile <(cat ~/.bashrc; echo "some_commands")
It would be *superb* if the OP would tell us what the actual goal is.