#97 stay open and return to prompt

[Anonymous]

I would like an option that would allow me to launch a
new multi-gnome-terminal from a script, run a command
in it that would give me some output, then have the
terminal return to a command prompt. For example, in
gentoo I frequently run the command:

emerge -upv world

which outputs something like this:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

It would be nice to have a cron job run a script
containing something like this:

multi-gnome-terminal -x emerge -upv world

I would like a new multi-gnome-terminal to open,
display the output, and REMAIN OPEN WHILE RETURNING TO
A PROMPT! That way it would pop up once a day telling
me exactly what's available for update and I can
respond immediately by typing right into that terminal.
In regular gnome-terminal I can get the window to stay
open but it doesn't return to prompt. Anyway, I think
this would be a useful feature. Thanks.

[Felix Wiemann]

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That's not the job of a terminal, I think.

multi-gnome-terminal -x sh -c "emerge -upv world; bash"

does what you want.