I'm trying to, from a command line, open an instance of konsole and run a python script. I'm trying:
konsole -hold -e 'python -i hello.py' The behaviour I'm getting is that a persistent konsole opens, and I am dropped into python, but the script does not run.
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:03:08) [GCC 4.6.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> What do I need to do to get the python script to run in the konsole window?
jsbueno's solution is the correct one. However, as described here, you can also do something like this ...
konsole --hold -e /bin/sh -c "python -i hello.py"
P.S. you'll need to specify --workdir (before the -e arg), or provide the full path to the python script, if it's not always in the initial working dir of konsole. But, you probably already knew that.
The problem is the way "konsole" uses the parameters after the -e switch - it seems like it simply pass them in a call that does not interpret the space separators as parameter separators.
However, if you don't put your call parameters inside quotes it will work - that is, simply:
konsole --hold -e python -i hello.py (I just tested it here)