Re: Is it normal for `bash -s foo` not to make 1=foo available from ~/.bashrc?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 05:05:09PM +0200, Torka Noda wrote:
> I have a script which opens the applications I want on all my
> desks, including gnome-terminal with a few tabs.
> 
> In these tabs, I want to change the current directory (I could
> use gnome-terminal's "--working-directory=$HOME/foo", but then
> opening a new tab, when this tab is selected, would put me in
> this initial directory, while I want to always start in
> $HOME...), and run a few simple commands, like do an `ls` to
> remind me the current content of the directory, or start `su`
> so I only have to input my password... (it may not seem like
> much, but doing it everyday for years, sometimes multiple times
> a day, gets a bit annoying... plus laziness...).

> gnome-terminal \
> --tab -e 'env PROFILE=su /bin/bash' \
> --tab -e 'env PROFILE=foo /bin/bash' \
> --tab -e 'env PROFILE=bar /bin/bash' \
> --tab

OK.  This looks reasonable.  Or, if you prefer, you could set up several
different .bashrc-xxx files and use /bin/bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc-xxx
for whichever tab.  Or skip the actual files, and embed the commands you
actually want into a process substitution.  I don't have gnome-terminal
to test with, but this works for me:

$ xterm -e /bin/bash --rcfile <(echo source ~/.bashrc; echo date)

I'm sure you can adapt that to gnome-terminal --tab somehow.