Run a script and exit terminal upon completion

[Thomas251]

Sorry if the title sounds vague or I word the following badly. I'm fairly new to Linux, I've used it but not for anything other than very basic stuff.

Here is the situation.

I want to call a script that starts Tomcat 5. The script will call a .sh file called catalina.sh. If any of you have used Tomcat and started it this way you will know that it will start up pretty fast and a message will hang in the terminal saying it's started up. When you run shutdown.sh you will see a shutdown message and you will be then be able to resume typing commands etc into the terminal. What I want to do is to be able to call a script (in my case start_tomcat.sh) that starts tomcat (calls catalina.sh) and then when Tomcat is shutdown the terminals close instead of remaining there.

I did the same in Windows and it was a case of putting

start /min cmd /c myfile.bat

Hope that helps, if I wasn't clear enough then say and I will try clear it up. Hope you guys can help.

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

As far as using Tomcat... nope. Never have.
But as far as closing the terminal window afterwards, try appending & exit to the last line if your script.

[Thomas251]

Hey, thanks for the welcome.

It worked, catalina.sh run & exit. Worked a treat. Thank you.