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

I know this is an old post, but this worked for me:

open -a Terminal "`pwd`"

To run a command as requested below takes some jiggery:

echo /sbin/ping 8.8.8.8 > /tmp/tmp.sh;chmod a+x /tmp/tmp.sh;open -a Terminal /tmp/tmp.sh