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

I added these to my .bash_profile so I can have access to tabname and newtab

tabname() {
  printf "\e]1;$1\a"
}

new_tab() {
  TAB_NAME=$1
  COMMAND=$2
  osascript \
    -e "tell application \"Terminal\"" \
    -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"t\" using {command down}" \
    -e "do script \"printf '\\\e]1;$TAB_NAME\\\a'; $COMMAND\" in front window" \
    -e "end tell" > /dev/null
}

So when you're on a particular tab you can just type

tabname "New TabName"

to organize all the open tabs you have. It's much better than getting info on the tab and changing it there.