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

The keyboard shortcut cmd-t opens a new tab, so you can pass this keystroke to OSA command as follows:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'keystroke "t" using command down' -e 'end tell'