Send argument values to new terminal

Question

I want to open new terminal and pass some values on OSX. I tried this code:

open_new_terminals_automatically()
{
    osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd $1; $2"'
}

# call the function and pass arguments
open_new_terminals_automatically "/root/var/fome_path" "some_commnds -argument"

This is very simple example to explain what I want to do. How I can implement it to run as bash script on OS X.

To do that, I usually create an here-doc bash file with all the commands needed and then I execute a new terminal only executing that here-doc created which contains all the commands you need — OscarAkaElvis, Dec 06 '16 at 11:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '16 at 11:38

What you have almost works, except you need double quotes instead of single quotes for the variable expansion to work properly.

Just create a script run.sh with contents

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"cd $1; $2\""

Then you can call it with sh run.sh "/root/var/fome_path" "some_commnds -argument".

If you want this all done in one script, then just do

open_new_terminals_automatically()
{
    osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"cd $1; $2\""
}

# call the function and pass arguments
open_new_terminals_automatically "/root/var/fome_path" "some_commnds -argument"

Send argument values to new terminal

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