Linux system command open a terminal.

When I run the system('command') option it runs the command silently with no open terminal. I was wondering if there was any way to have it run in an open terminal window? Not for user input sakes, but to display information output from a long running process. I know that if I use the [status, output] = system('commoand') it will place the output of the command into output after the command has run. As this is a long process and the information displayed is estimated time remaining a real time display is useful. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

[Kojiro Saito]

In order to display information from the command, just adding '-echo' option to system command is fine.

[stat, cmdOut] = system('XXX', '-echo');

For example, when I have the following shell script.

test.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo 'Start'
sleep 2s
echo '2 second elapsed'
sleep 5s
echo '7 second elapsed'

I can know the prossesing status by calling it with an echo option.

[stat, cmdOut] = system('./test.sh', '-echo')

Here is a result. We can get echo messages ('Start' and 'X second elapesed') in real time.

Start
2 second elapsed
7 second elapsed

stat =

     0


cmdOut =

    'Start
     2 second elapsed
     7 second elapsed
     '

[John Scoggin]

Worked Great thanks