A simple example to launch terminals (gnome-terminal) with bash. This example launches 4 terminals; each monitoring the system in a different way.
#!/bin/bash # [Eaxample] Helper script to launch CLI apps # Created to use gnome-terminal (e.g. instead of pterm, etc) ROUTING_TABLE_CMD="watch -n 30 netstat -r" DISK_USAGE_CMD="watch -n 60 df -h" ACTIVE_PROCESSES_CMD="top -a" MEMORY_UTILIZATION_CMD="watch -n 5 free -m" echo "Starting netstat to monitor routing table." gnome-terminal -t "ROUTING TABLE" -x bash -c "$ROUTING_TABLE_CMD" & echo "Starting df to monitor disk usage." gnome-terminal -t "DISK USAGE" -x bash -c "$DISK_USAGE_CMD" & echo "Starting "top" to monitor active process." gnome-terminal -t "ACTIVE PROCESSES" -x bash -c "$ACTIVE_PROCESSES_CMD" & echo "Starting "free" to monitor memory utilization." gnome-terminal -t "MEMORY UTILIZATION" -x bash -c "$MEMORY_UTILIZATION_CMD" &