write this in "hello.sh" file #!/bin/bash # some older test, doesn't work and complains and I get this message on command line: "QApplication::qAppName: Please instantiate the QApplication object first" # I also can't enter text after command executes #echo "Hello World!" #exec konsole --noclose -e cat ~/.aliases for i in 1 2 3 4 do # opens terminal but then I can't control terminal afterwards xterm - hold - e "echo Hello My World" & done # didn't do anything #exit 0 # didn't do anything except make me type exit an extra time where I executed my shell script #$SHELL chmod +x hello.sh ./hello.sh