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

Here's how it's done by bash_it:

function tab() {
  osascript 2>/dev/null <

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