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I want to run a program from inside a bash script, such that it opens in a new command line window. How can I do this?

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That really depends on the GUI you are using. Try some of the below for executing an ls command.

With gnome-terminal:

gnome-terminal -x bash -c "ls; bash"

(taken from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/is-command-line-invocation-of-gnome-terminal-to-run-more-than-one-command-possible-789599/)

With xterm:

xterm -e "ls; bash"

(taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=760006).

For konsole, take a look here:

or here:

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should I add terminal checks like "if [$TERM = "xterm"];then" in that case?
This will not work - e.g. I have TERM=xterm, but xterm is an unknown command, gnome-terminal is a right one in my case. You can do something like: gnome-terminal -x bash -c "ls; bash" || xterm -e "ls; bash" to first rune gnome-terminal and xterm only if it fails (note it will output "command not found") or use some more complex detection. If on one system, I wouldn't worry about that.
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xterm -e 'program to be run'

Your terminal may have a different switch than -e, but I don't know what your terminal is.

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