Bash脚本打开终端并cd到可变目录

Question

I want to write a bash script that opens a gnome-terminal in a directory in ~/Documents/ according to the argument passed to it (eg ./open.sh notes opens the terminal in ~/Documents/notes/ )

How would I go about that? I know gnome-terminal --working-directory=[directory] does something similar, but it doesn't accept strings so I don't know if it can be used in this case.

Answer 1

you can try this;

#!/bin/bash
workDir="/home/user/Documents/$1"
if [ ! -d "$workDir" ]; then
    echo "directory not found, check your path"
else
    gnome-terminal --working-directory="$workDir"
fi

Example;

./open.sh notes

this open a new terminal in ~/Documents/notes

Answer 2

Your script, or function, could simply be:

open() {
    gnome-terminal --working-directory="Documents/$1"
}

It looks like the working directory can be specified relative to the user's home directory.

Use it like open notes to open a new terminal in ~/Documents/notes .