Applescript (osascript): opening split panes in iTerm 2 and performing commands

Question

The following works to open two tabs in iTerm 2.

I can\'t seem to figure out how to get this to using split panes instead.

I\'ve tried appl

Answer 1

As Dom pointed out, in the new 2.9 beta builds, the other answers won't work anymore. I was frustrated by not being able to automated this so I wrote a teamocil compatible command line tool that does exactly this:

https://github.com/TomAnthony/itermocil

It allows you to write YAML files for pre-configured sets of windows and panes, which can run pre-defined sets of commands for the given project.