Applescript to Duplicate Terminal Tab
From my personal experience, I realized that I’d always need at least two terminal tabs whenever I do any Rails development: one to run the server ($ ./script/server) and one to do the rest of the rails stuff (generate things, run rake, etc). Pressing Cmd-t in Terminal will open a new tab, but that new tab would always start at my home directory.
Now I can first navigate to the folder I wanted to got to in Terminal, then this script will open a new tab in the foremost window of Terminal, then “cd” into the directory of the previous tab.
tell application "Terminal"
activate
tell front window
set cur_path to do script "osascript \
-e 'tell application \"Terminal\"' \
-e 'tell application \"System Events\" \
to tell process \"Terminal\" to \
keystroke \"t\" using command down' \
-e \"do script with \
command \\\"cd `pwd`;clear\\\" \
in selected tab of the front window\" \
-e 'end tell'" in selected tab
end tell
end tell
