Terminal emulator that lets me open multiple tiled panes and run specific commands in one line.

Question

On the current project I'm working on when I start I end up doing something like this:

[open terminal]
cd ~/my-project 
npm start

[open terminal ]
cd ~/my-project
firebase serve --only functions

[open terminal]
cd ~/a-dependency 
npm start

[open terminal] 
cd ~/my-project 
[will do git commands here] 

It's a bit of a pain.

What I'd like to do is have a single command I can run to do all of these things, and start a tiled terminal emulator (like Terminator) running all of these commands. It's important to have them all on separate tiles/windows - so I can see the console output of each of them.

Answer 1

One possibility is to launch each as a process or to have a script that does it for you.

So, as long as you don't need to see the outputs:

[open terminal]
cd ~/my-project 
npm start &
cd ~/my-project
firebase serve --only functions &
cd ~/a-dependency 
npm start &
cd ~/my-project 
<do your git commands>

Of course you will need to slay/kill the launched processes when you no longer need them.