Spawn a new terminal window (Mac OS X)?

Question

I am often working in a process in the Terminal and I've set some variables and used cd and so forth. Then I'd like to open another Terminal window from there. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You could use this little script to do what you want:

#!/bin/sh 
osascript <<END 
tell app "Terminal" to do script "cd \"`pwd`\"" 
END

place it in one of the folders in your path, make it executable (chmod +x filename) and run rehash. You can then run the name of this script to open a new terminal window in the same directory.

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Answer 2

What you could do is the following.

Get the current environment in your clipboard:

env | pbcopy

Open up a new Terminal window and export those environment variables

for env in `pbpaste`; do export $env; done

And to ease the process, you could always alias it, like so

alias get_env="env | pbcopy"
alias set_env="for env in `pbpaste`; do export $env; done"

So that all you have to do is

get_env Command+N set_env

Answer 3

To open a new Terminal window you can do open -n /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app or also /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal & Though I don't know if they will accept an argument such as cd ~/Documents/ Both these make completely new instances though, so to go between them on the keyboard you have to do cmd+tab and not cmd+` And if you are going to cmd+tab it always put's the new instance at the end of the queue, so you may have to do shift+cmd+tab