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sheharbano
sheharbano

Reputation: 219

Activate Virtual Environment in tmux session created by Shell file

I have written a shell script which should ideally create a tmux session and activate virtual environment in it. But it does not activate it after creating tmux session. Here is the code snippet:

cd /home
cd Portals/
tmux new-session -d -s devgeo 
source activate.sh

And this is my activate.sh file

source "venv/bin/activate"

What am I doing wrong. Can anyone help me out?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1195

Answers (1)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 532093

You are executing source activate.sh in your current shell, not in the shell running in your newly created tmux session. Use the send-keys command to send that command to the shell, as if you had typed it yourself.

tmux new-session -c /home/Portals -d -s devgeo
tmux send-keys -t devgeo:1 "source activate.sh" C-m

(The -c option lets you set the working directory of the new session without having to change the working directory of your current shell.)

Upvotes: 3

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