Hello all, I used a little command line on Linux Mint.

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gnome-terminal -- /bin/sh -c 'sleep 1; echo "Sync ! :"; sync; sleep 5'

I want to adapt it to konsole but this way doesn't work, it just opens two terminals :

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konsole -- /bin/sh -c 'sleep 1; echo "Sync ! :"; sync; sleep 5'

Can you help me ? I use it after copying large number of files to USB and I want to be sure there is no data left in cache.
Thanks

Hi!

There is a runCommand-method in Konsole available via dbus. I'm using yakuake as dropdown-terminal, but it will work for konsole too if you replace yakuake with konsole-$id (and of course your window/session-id)

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qdbus org.kde.yakuake /Sessions/11 org.kde.konsole.Session.runCommand date


koffeinfriedhof wrote:Hi!

There is a runCommand-method in Konsole available via dbus. I'm using yakuake as dropdown-terminal, but it will work for konsole too if you replace yakuake with konsole-$id (and of course your window/session-id)

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qdbus org.kde.yakuake /Sessions/11 org.kde.konsole.Session.runCommand date


I have no idea how to use that, but after more digging and trying I found my answer :

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bash -c 'sleep 2 && echo "Sincronizez ! " && sync && sleep 2'

DBus is an interprocess communication system that allows you to trigger methods, connect and react to signals, ... It is worth a look.

Your solution will run without a visual feedback if you do not spawn a graphical terminal before running it. You could use Konsole to run such a command and keep the window open, e.g.

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konsole --hold -e 'bash -c "sync && echo finished...; sleep 2; echo Processing...; sleep 1; echo Done"'

This will hold the window open, even after 'echo Done' returns.

Another approach would be a logfile, or a notification after finishing sync. The && command only triggers if the process before it is returning without errors, so in your example the last 'sleep 2' would only trigger if sync is finished without error. Consider using a message on failure, for example

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sync || echo sync failed

I tried with this one in FreeFileSync after it finishes ... but nothing shows up.

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konsole --hold -e 'bash -c "sync && echo finished...; sleep 2; echo Processing...; sleep 1; echo Done"'

So FreeFileSync does trigger the command? Perhaps it is missing the $PATH or runs another shell interpreter. Try it with full path

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/usr/bin/konsole --hold -e 'echo Read this'

If it does not show up, check the logfiles of FreeFileSync or `journalctl -xe` for messages. I do not know FreeFileSync, so it is just an idea.

koffeinfriedhof wrote:So FreeFileSync does trigger the command? Perhaps it is missing the $PATH or runs another shell interpreter. Try it with full path

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/usr/bin/konsole --hold -e 'echo Read this'

If it does not show up, check the logfiles of FreeFileSync or `journalctl -xe` for messages. I do not know FreeFileSync, so it is just an idea.

yap ! that was it ! Thank you !!

so for me this is what I was searching for :

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/usr/bin/konsole -e 'bash -c "sync && echo Sync...; sleep 5"'

Great

Now you could enhance it with a failcheck, like `sync || notify-send "Sync FAILED" "There was an error syncing, please check!"`. || is the opposite of &&, so instead of running on success of the previous process, it only runs if the previous process failed.
Have fun

FlowXP wrote:

koffeinfriedhof wrote:So FreeFileSync does trigger the command? Perhaps it is missing the $PATH or runs another shell interpreter. Try it with full path

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/usr/bin/konsole --hold -e 'echo Read this'

If it does not show up, check the logfiles of FreeFileSync or `journalctl -xe` for messages. I do not know FreeFileSync, so it is just an idea.

yap ! that was it ! Thank you !!

so for me this is what I was searching for :

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/usr/bin/konsole -e 'bash -c "sync && echo Sync...; sleep 5"'

Ok so this doesn't work in qbittorrent, at the end of a download I made this

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/usr/bin/konsole --hold -e 'usr/bin/bash -c "sync && echo Sync...; sleep 3"'

and I get this :

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Warning: Could not find ''usr/bin/bash', starting '/bin/bash' instead.  Please check your profile settings.

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I presume the problem is in my sintax ? It can't be because it's an appimage because it has acces to /usr/bin/konsole, but not to /usr/bin/bash ??

''usr/bin/bash' is missing the root-directory, you have to use an absolut path: /usr/bin/bash

nope,
it's the same

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Warning: Could not find ''/usr/bin/bash', starting '/bin/bash' instead.  Please check your profile settings.

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file


Can you check the whole line again? There is missing an apostrophe. Is your bash located in /usr/bin/bash? try `which bash` or `type bash` to get the resolved absolute path.

It's there :

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$ which bash
/usr/bin/bash
$ type bash
bash is /usr/bin/bash

After lots of baby steps I discover the final form !! :

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/usr/bin/konsole -e bash -c "sync && echo Sync... && sleep 5"

Thank you again !

yw