Same command works from terminal but doesn't when automated

[DeutscheGabanna]

Let's say I open up another terminal, for example - kgx - or even cool-retro-term. I want a new instance of cool-retro-term with a specific command, so I type in:

cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags <some_files_comma_separated>'

For example:

cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/biel-incongruity-of-company-law-terms-mix -- article legal.html" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/english-for-tax-professionals-reference-book-en -- finance legal book.txt" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/semi-automatic-wild-cards-for-polish-inflections.txt"'

It works. Another window pops up with the correct output for tagging files:

Please enter tags, separated by " "; abort with Ctrl-C; complete 10 tags with TAB

         .--------, 
        | o   ?   | 
         `--------' 

  Top nine previously used tags in this directory:
    article (1) ⋅ book (2) ⋅ dictionary (3) ⋅ finance (4) ⋅ languages (5) ⋅ legal (6) ⋅ personal (7) ⋅ politics (8) ⋅ tech (9)

Tags: 

But now let's do exactly the same, but from Nautilus automated script. (I know what you want to reply - "It's a Nautilus issue" - please, let me explain in full).

My .sh script basically amounts to running the same command as above. Identical:

cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/biel-incongruity-of-company-law-terms-mix -- article legal.html" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/english-for-tax-professionals-reference-book-en -- finance legal book.txt" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/semi-automatic-wild-cards-for-polish-inflections.txt"'

How do I know this? By outputting the wanna-be-result into a file. The script:

#!/bin/bash

# Declare an array to store file paths
file_paths=()

# Split the selected file paths into an array
IFS=$'\n' read -d '' -ra file_paths <<< "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"

# Iterate through the array and format the paths
for file in "${file_paths[@]}"; do
    # Enclose each file path in quotation marks and append it to the array
    formatted_file="\"$file\""
    formatted_paths+=("$formatted_file")
done

# Join the array into a single string with space-separated items
formatted_paths="${formatted_paths[*]}"

# Open new instance of the terminal and run filetags <filepaths>
# THIS IS THE DEBUG LINE TO COMPARE FINAL COMMANDS
echo "cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags $formatted_paths'" > try.txt
cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags $formatted_paths'

And the moment of truth, let's compare try.txt to my manual command:

cool-retro-term -e /bin/bash -c 'source ~/.bashrc; filetags "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/biel-incongruity-of-company-law-terms-mix -- article legal.html" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/english-for-tax-professionals-reference-book-en -- finance legal book.txt" "/home/deutschegabanna/local/documents/semi-automatic-wild-cards-for-polish-inflections.txt"'

They are the same! And yet, if I launch my Nautilus script, the cool-retro-term opens... starts complaining about missing pip packages (as if the .bashrc environmental vars weren't properly loaded) and exits within milliseconds.

How do I fix this? I debugged this to my limit, trying for three days now.

[Sectonidse]

I have the same issue and want it fixed... I tried to execute cool-retro-term from standard terminal - works, from scripts (such as bash, Python scripts and even Cinnamon launchers and launching command through KDE Connect) - doesn't work.

[Sectonidse]

The interesting thing is, when trying to execute cool-retro-term with --verbose, it doesn't tell that there's errors, it only tells that qml is loading, then storing the settings.

[Sectonidse]

What i found out is that it keeps running if you append & sleep 5 into the command, but the window instantly closes when launched... I consider this a bug now.

[DeutscheGabanna]

Yeah, I tried to get some attention in a similar thread here: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/728#issuecomment-2149456156 but to no avail @Sectonidse