Is there a way to launch a terminal window (or cmd on Windows) and pass/run a command?

Question

Question

Is it possible to do the following?

• open a new cmd.exe or terminal (on MacOS / Linux) window

• pass /

Answer 1

Here is a working example showing how to open a Terminal window at a specific path (~/Desktop for instance) on macOS, from a renderer script:

const { app } = require ('electron').remote;
const atPath = app.getPath ('desktop');
const { spawn } = require ('child_process');
let openTerminalAtPath = spawn ('open', [ '-a', 'Terminal', atPath ]);
openTerminalAtPath.on ('error', (err) => { console.log (err); });

It should be easy to adapt it to any selected atPath... As for running other commands, I haven't found a way yet...

And here is the equivalent working code for Linux Mint Cinnamon or Ubuntu:

const { app } = require ('electron').remote;
const terminal = 'gnome-terminal';
const atPath = app.getPath ('desktop');
const { spawn } = require ('child_process');
let openTerminalAtPath = spawn (terminal, { cwd: atPath });
openTerminalAtPath.on ('error', (err) => { console.log (err); });

Please note that the name of the terminal application may be different, depending on the Linux flavor (for instance 'mate-terminal' on Linux Mint MATE), and also that the full path to the application can be explicitly defined, to be on the safe side:

const terminal = '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal';

HTH...