Question

I find myself running the same terminal commands when I turn on the laptop. I press ctrl+alt+t to open a new terminal window. (I am a beginner working with RoR on Ubuntu 12.04)

1. I open new terminal window and navigate to Rails folder and run vim
2. I open another terminal window, navigate to Rails folder and run
   ‘bundle exec guard‘
3. I open another window, and run rails console
4. I open another window with rails server running on it
5. I open another window with IRSSI (IRC client on it)

How to perform these actions with single terminal command? I guess a custom script is required, but I don’t know how to write it or where to put it… Also, if possible, I’d like to open them in a full screen terminal windows

Answer 1

You can use tmux for these kind of staff. For example the example below will create 5 windows(which are tabs), each named with the first parametr after -n and then executed.

#!/bin/sh
tmux new-session -d -s hawkhost

tmux new-window -t hawkhost:1 -n 'vim' 'vim'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:2 -n 'bundle' 'bundle exec guard'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:3 -n 'rails1' 'rails console'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:4 -n 'rails2' 'rails server'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:5 -n 'irc' 'irsii'

tmux select-window -t hawkhost:1
tmux -2 attach-session -t hawkhost

Look here for more information about this:

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/#tmux-shell-scripting

In tmux panes are arbitary windows, and windows are actually tabs.