Open Terminal from shell and execute commands

Question

I am lazy so I want to write a shell script to open my dev environment. I setup two commands dev and dev-startup. When I run dev /directory/path it should open a new terminal window at /directory/path and execute dev-startup.

I'm not sure how to open the terminal window at a specific directory and then run a final command to run the tools I need to setup the environment.

I'm running OSX, so maybe AppleScript is the answer?

Solution

Option 1 with xterm (will automatically close the window when completed):

xterm -e "cd /tmp/; watch 'pwd;date'"

Option 2 with MacOS terminal:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd /tmp;pwd"'

Comments

[Calebmer]

With the second command I've found a weird interaction. Whenever I open a new tab it executes the command.

[volker]

I am sure you can adjust the osascript so it will only do it once.

[Fernando Wittmann]

Is this also possible on iTerm? This command didn't work: osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to do script "cd /tmp;pwd"'

[volker]

Yes, see iterm2.com/documentation-scripting.html