How to execute multiple commands after opening a new terminal tab

Question

I need to open a new terminal tab and execute multiple commands on it, how can I do it. I have already tried the following,

gnome-terminal --tab -t "X" -e "cd ~/Desktop/terminal_test;mkdir test"

Here I need to cd into a new directory and create a new folder.

Answer 1

You can use gnome-terminal. The script below will open 3 tabs running the respective commands..

tab="--tab"

cmd01="bash -c 'ls';'pwd';bash"

foo=""

foo+=($tab -e "$cmd01")

gnome-terminal "${foo[@]}"

exit 0

Answer 2

Try this:

gnome-terminal -x bash -c "cmd1; cmd2; …cmdN; exec bash"