Open new Terminal Tab from command line (Mac OS X)

Question

Is it possible to open a new tab in Mac OS X\'s terminal from the command line in a currently opened tab?

I know that the keyboard shortcut to open a new tab in Term

Answer 1

The keyboard shortcut cmd-t opens a new tab, so you can pass this keystroke to OSA command as follows:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'keystroke "t" using command down' -e 'end tell'

Answer 2

If you are using iTerm this command will open a new tab:

osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'

Answer 3

when you are in a terminal window, command + n => opens a new terminal and command + t => opens a new tab in current terminal window

Answer 4

What about this simple snippet, based on a standard script command (echo):

# set mac osx's terminal title to "My Title"
echo -n -e "\033]0;My Title\007"

Answer 5

Here's how it's done by bash_it:

function tab() {
  osascript 2>/dev/null <<EOF
    tell application "System Events"
      tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
    end
    tell application "Terminal"
      activate
      do script with command "cd \"$PWD\"; $*" in window 1
    end tell
EOF
}

After adding this to your .bash_profile, you'd use the tab command to open the current working directory in a new tab.

See: https://github.com/revans/bash-it/blob/master/plugins/available/osx.plugin.bash#L3

Answer 6

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"
   do script "echo hello"
end tell'

This opens a new terminal and executes the command "echo hello" inside it.