How can I launch a mate-terminal, run a command in it and leave the terminal open?
It seems that konsole and xterm support this pretty easily as you can see from the following post:
konsole --noclose -e echo Hello World. Running this from terminal 1! &
xterm -hold -e echo “Hello world: $i” && /bin/bash &
Hi not sure of your intended usage but in 4. of the link you provided it references your run a command and leave the terminal open question.
" Lastly, exec bash ensures that the Bash terminal stays open even after the code has been executed."
Note: It mentions gnome-terminal which is mate-terminal in MATE.
It seems to be involved with scripts. Are you trying to follow a bash tutorial?
Or just using the terminal. I use it and when not using script it stays open after each command I enter.
Maybe a more precise example of what is failing for you.
There is no such commandline-option for mate-terminal.
But:
You can keep the terminal open by a setting in the selected/loaded profile.
You can select/load a profile by commandline-option
mate-terminal --profile='MyProfileName' -e 'MyCommand'
Combining these two steps brings you as close as you can get to the desired result.