What is wrong with my bash script?

Question

#!/usr/bin/env bash

gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=app

# Execute exe1
pathToExe1=./dir1/exe1
gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=app -t "exe1" -- $pathToExe1

# Execute exe2
pathToExe2=./dir2/exe2
gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=app -t "exe2" -- $pathToExe2

# Execute exe3
pathToExe3=./dir3/exe3
gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=app -t "exe3" -- $pathToExe3

# Execute exe4
pathToExe4=./dir4/exe4
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do
    arg="argValue${i}"
    gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=app -t "exe4" -- $pathToExe4 $arg
done

I am trying to open a new terminal window which has a bunch of terminal tabs, each of which is running a executable. It won't run... What am I doing wrong? Is there anyway to do it without using profiles? When I do create a profile called "app", it opens another window, but the tabs open in the original window. Which is not right.

Answer 1

I think your script hangs waiting for the first gnome-terminal command to finish.

Try to add a space then & at the end of each gnome-terminal line, so the shell will not wait there and continue.