So you want the command to run, and then once the command finishes, drop to a shell?
That works when you type it because it doesn't hit EOF once startvm.bsh finishes -- there's already another shell running, waiting for the keyboard. But when you run it as a command, your program is the only thing running. It hits a very literal 'end of file', decides its time to quit, and when it does there's absolutely nothing left running at all -- causing the terminal to quit.
If you want it to run another shell after, tell it to run another shell after.
How about this?
A miniature shell-script on the commandline itself, telling it to run startvm.bsh first, then start a plain shell afterwards.
Thanks @corona688: I mean run gnome-terminal command which pop-up a gnome-terminal window. run & display the STDOUT of the startvm.bsh on the pop-up gnome-terminal for the purpose of displaying if command "vboxheadless ..." succesfully executed the VM then exit the script and then close the gnome-terminal window. Close all window(gnome-terminal) or shell etc. after displaying the STDOUT of the script but not affecting the command the script execute.
I already tried the command you give and succesfully powerof the vm and gnome-terminal won't close since another bash shell holding it. But as soon as the gnome-terminal close the same as the VM.(Its like sending a close signal to the command they executed before). I already tried putting "&" to background command but still no success.
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gnome-screensaver-command
gnome-screensaver-command(1) General Commands Manual gnome-screensaver-command(1)NAME
gnome-screensaver-command - controls GNOME screensaver
SYNOPSIS
gnome-screensaver-command [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-screensaver-command is a tool for controlling an already running instance of gnome-screensaver.
OPTIONS --exit Causes the screensaver to exit gracefully
-q, --query
Query the state of the screensaver
-t, --time
Query the length of time the screensaver has been active
-l, --lock
Tells the running screensaver process to lock the screen immediately
-a, --activate
Turn the screensaver on (blank the screen)
-d, --deactivate
If the screensaver is active then deactivate it (un-blank the screen)
-V, --version
Version of this application
AUTHORS
gnome-screensaver-command is written by William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>.
SEE ALSO gnome-screensaver(1)GNOME 2007-09-27 gnome-screensaver-command(1)