Open two terminal windows side by side

Question

If I am in Bash and type

vim -O file1 file2

I will get two files opened side by side. How can I get a similar effect but for :terminal windows, not for files?

Answer 1

You can specify commands to be run using the -c argument. Therefore, this should work for you:

vim -c 'terminal ++curwin' -c 'vertical terminal'

If your goal is just to have two terminal windows side-by-side, there are also non-vim solutions to this which may be more appropriate depending on your use case e.g. GNU screen, tmux.