How can I open a new terminal session in a script, then interact with it?

handyman_hank

I try to do like below: #!/usr/bin/env sh name="video.mp4" ffmpeg -i "$name" -acodec copy output.mp4 | mate-terminal I want to see the results in a newly opened terminal, but of course it doesn't wrok like that.

Originally asked by user386273 on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This is what's required : mate-terminal -e "bash -c \"ffmpeg -i $name -acodec copy output.mp4;read -p'Press Enter to quit'\"" Explain: What we want is to run two commands (maybe others as well) ffmpeg -i $name -acodec copy output.mp4 read -p'Press Enter to quit' By chaining them together with bash -c bash -c "ffmpeg -i $name -acodec copy output.mp4;read -p'Press Enter to quit'" To put it in the context of mate-terminal, we need to escape both double quotes: bash -c \"ffmpeg -i $name -acodec copy output.mp4;read -p'Press Enter to quit'\" mate-terminal -e accept a single argument which gives : mate-terminal -e "bash -c \"ffmpeg -i $name -acodec copy output.mp4;read -p'Press Enter to quit'\""

Full answer by Philippe: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/560689 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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