CentOS - Aug 2011 - How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

"gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=AAA --tab-with-profile=BBB"

Hi I am trying to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window like above. I
want to run a command for each tab within the body of the above command. AAA and
BBB are both profiles I have created and also predefined environment variable on
my system (each representing a path to a folder). The code I was hoping would
work was something like:

"gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=AAA -e='ls AAA'
--tab-with-profile=BBB -e='ls
BBB'"

in order to list the folder contents within each tab, but no dice.

Anyone know how to do this in a single command?

Thanks
Pete

From: Pete O'Connell <pedrooconnell at gmail.com>
> Hi I am trying to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window like above.
I
> want to run a command for each tab within the body of the above command.
AAA and
> BBB are both profiles I have created and also predefined environment
variable on
> my system (each representing a path to a folder). The code I was hoping
would
> work was something like:
> 
> "gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=AAA -e='ls AAA' 
> --tab-with-profile=BBB -e='ls
> BBB'"
> 
> in order to list the folder contents within each tab, but no dice.
I think the problem is more that it exits right away and does not seem to accept
chained commands with ; or &&...
Try with a full script with loops or something like watch:
gnome-terminal --tab -e "watch ls /" --tab -e "watch ls /"

JD