Open new tab in ITerm2 and run commands there with zsh script

Question

I want make a shell script to startup my project env. I'm using ITerm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh installed.

I want to:

Open directory
Activate python virtualenv
Run django manage command
Switch to the new tab
change directory
Run gulp command to watch for frontend changes

All I got is this:

#!/bin/zsh
cd ~/Projects/python/project_name
source ~/virtualenvs/project_name/bin/activate
python ./backend/manage.py runserver 
tab
cd front
gulp watch

And as you can expect this doesn't work. Can you point me direction where I should look or is this even possible to do with just shell script?

Jonathan Soifer · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-28 15:15:41Z

4

Completely possible.

I did pretty much the same thing you're trying (although it is a Rails project) using an NPM package called ttab.

Install NPM.
Install TTab.
You can run the commands in the new tab like so:

# First switch to directory
cd front
# Open new tab in that directory and execute
ttab -G eval "gulp watch"

Note: You can execute several commands if needed, like gulp watch; rails s.

If you need to run a command on the original tab that is also on a different directory, you can create a procedure/function in your script file to do that:

# Define the function before it is called
gotofolder()
{
  cd ~/mydirectory
}

# start the other tabs (...)

# change the original tab directory
gotofolder
# Run Rails or whatever
./bin/rails s

If you want to take a look at how I did this, please checkout the confereai.sh script in my MDFR repo.

edited Sep 28, 2016 at 15:15

answered Sep 28, 2016 at 13:17

Jonathan Soifer

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3 Comments

Łukasz Staniszewski Over a year ago

Hi! I found this package too, but I didnt know about functions. Thanks

Cristian Rojas Over a year ago

I'm seing your answer now @jaysoifer but the link to MDFR is not working, if you please update it would be super helpful.

jalanb Over a year ago

@ŁukaszStaniszewski Bash's functions are explained here

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