Why is this command starting endless terminals and how to make it work?

Question

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --command='/home/user23/bin/n-youtube-dl "$1"'

I want to pass the argument passed to this script to the other script started in the terminal. But this starts endless gnome terminals.

Can you explain why that is and how to make this work?

I am running zsh has my main shell if that matters, the terminal starts the script in zsh then I guess.

Update:

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --command='echo "WTF"'
read -p "Press [Enter] key"

Is just closing the term faster then I can see WTF. Isn't it supposed to stop? Same goes for replacing the WTF with $1 again, no respawn.

Answer 1

To run a command in gnome-terminal, and safely pass arguments to it, you should use the -x option, since this avoids having the line parsed by two shells.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
gnome-terminal -x youtube-dl "$@"

Answer 2

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "cd ~/Downloads/youtube; youtube-dl \"$@\"; read -p \"Press [Enter] key\""

This is how I actually solved this.