Open Terminal from shell and execute commands

Question

I am lazy so I want to write a shell script to open my dev environment. I setup two commands dev and dev-startup. When I run dev /directory/path it should open a new terminal window at /directory/path and execute dev-startup.

I'm not sure how to open the terminal window at a specific directory and then run a final command to run the tools I need to setup the environment.

I'm running OSX, so maybe AppleScript is the answer?

Hey, that's not lazy, that's efficiency! – stone May 14 '17 at 23:26 — stone, May 14 '17 at 23:26

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 20:56

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Option 1 with xterm (will automatically close the window when completed):

xterm -e "cd /tmp/; watch 'pwd;date'"

Option 2 with MacOS terminal:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd /tmp;pwd"'

answered Jul 20 '15 at 20:56

volker

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With the second command I've found a weird interaction. Whenever I open a new tab it executes the command. – Calebmer Jul 21 '15 at 12:17
I am sure you can adjust the osascript so it will only do it once. – volker Jul 21 '15 at 21:29
Is this also possible on iTerm? This command didn't work: `osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to do script "cd /tmp;pwd"'` – Fernando Wittmann Nov 11 '18 at 20:25
Yes, see https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-scripting.html – volker Nov 13 '18 at 16:08

Open Terminal from shell and execute commands

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