From: Pete O'Connell <pedrooconn...@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
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