Open Terminal From Eclipse

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Is there a plugin to provide an "open terminal here" option when right-clicking on a folder in Eclipse? I found this, but it only seems to work on Windows, and I'm using Ubuntu.

Consider also [this solution][1], which relies on Eclipse Remote System Explorer. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562600/is-there-an-eclipse-plugin-to-run-system-shell-in-the-console — Marco Trevisan, Jun 19 '12 at 16:36
in Eclipse-Preferences for tarlog 1.4.2 (which you linked to in your question body), I use this as "Open Shell command": `/usr/bin/nohup gnome-terminal --working-directory={0} &` , and for "Open Exlorer Command": `/usr/bin/nohup nautilus {0}` . Works for me. — knb, Oct 23 '12 at 11:56

score 32 · Accepted Answer · edited May 15 '13 at 10:25

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Easy shell definitely is the one you're looking for.

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You can install it via Eclipse marketplace. If you don't have Eclipse Marketplace Client (e.g., you are using Eclipse Classic), you can install it: ["Install New Software..."] --> search for "Marketplace Client"

edited May 15 '13 at 10:25

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answered Nov 17 '10 at 13:45

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Unfortunately, all I use is Eclipse Classic, which appears to be the only platform where Marketplace is unavailable. – Cerin Nov 17 '10 at 21:52
@Chris S, it should work as well to directly add http://pluginbox.sourceforge.net as update site – Kane Nov 18 '10 at 06:12
highly recommending Easy shell, my eclipse's old friend. – Jerry Tian Aug 09 '12 at 04:48
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easyshell works really good with Eclipse 4.2 and OSX 10.8.1 :) thanks! – lhlmgr Aug 26 '12 at 18:01
easy shell is platform-independent, it launch system shell. It's excellent. – Honghe.Wu Feb 22 '13 at 05:16
working great on OS X, thanks! – Renaud May 15 '13 at 10:21

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 17 '10 at 13:30

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Yes, here it is: http://code.google.com/p/openextern/

This is an eclipse plugin, which you can use to open a shell (either a command prompt - CMD or a linux shell), or a folder (windows explorer, nautilus, konqueror) from eclipse's resource navigator or package explorer.

answered Nov 17 '10 at 13:30

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Installed it via Update Manager, restarted, but it had no effect... – Cerin Nov 17 '10 at 21:29
Must have been a borked 3.4 Windows install. Tried adding it on a 3.5 Linux install, and it works perfectly. Thanks. – Cerin Nov 17 '10 at 21:51
Thanks! Works great on Ubuntu 11.10 – Michael Allan Jackson Feb 28 '12 at 07:43
Atlhough this has worked well for years, I found it apparently doesn't work at all in Unity with Eclipse 4.4. However, Easy Shell continued to work. – Cerin Apr 26 '15 at 17:45

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 16:16

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To get an integrated terminal, try http://elt.googlecode.com

answered Jul 19 '12 at 16:16

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This was exactly what I was looking for, Thannks – Phill Pafford Aug 10 '12 at 19:46
I installed it Windows 7, but alas it doesn't work; should have read the fine print that said it won't not work for windows :( – Darwyn Jan 27 '13 at 19:22

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '13 at 08:37

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There is an Incubator project called Local Terminal. You can install it from the Eclipse update site under General Purpose Tools->Local Terminal
Much better then http://elt.googlecode.com

answered May 15 '13 at 08:37

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 17 '10 at 12:56

Sorry, I don't know any plugin which integrates that, except for this one. You might be forced to modify tarlog.

I've had a look at the code of tarlog. You could have a look at the OpenCommandPrompt class (can be found in the tarlog package: tarlog.eclipse.plugins_1.4.2\src\tarlog\eclipse\plugins\openwe)

   @Override
    protected void doAction(String path) {
        try {
            File file = new File(path);
            if (file.isFile()) {
                File parentFile = file.getParentFile();
                if (parentFile != null) {
                    path = parentFile.getAbsolutePath();
                }
            }
            if (command.indexOf("{0}") >= 0) {
                Runtime.getRuntime().exec(MessageFormat.format(command, path));
            } else {
                Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command, null, new File(path));
            }
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

From what the code looks like it should work perfectly fine, as long as you specify the right executable in the preferences...

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 05:59

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Aptana 3 (base on Eclipse) has built-in terminal.
It is convenient.

answered Feb 22 '13 at 05:59

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