Open new Terminal tabs from the command line

iterm

#!/bin/bash
#
# Open new Terminal tabs from the command line
#
# Author: Justin Hileman (http://justinhileman.com)
#
# Installation:
#     Add the following function to your `.bashrc` or `.bash_profile`,
#     or save it somewhere (e.g. `~/.tab.bash`) and source it in `.bashrc`
#
# Usage:
#     tab                   Opens the current directory in a new tab
#     tab [PATH]            Open PATH in a new tab
#     tab [CMD]             Open a new tab and execute CMD
#     tab [PATH] [CMD] ...  You can prob'ly guess

# Only for Mac users
[ `uname -s` != "Darwin" ] && exit 1

cdto="$PWD"
cmd=""
args="$@"

    if [ -d "$1" ]; then
        cdto=`cd "$1"; pwd`
        args="${@:2}"
    fi

    if [ -n "$args" ]; then
        cmd="; $args"
fi

osascript - "$@" <<EOF
on run argv
tell application "iTerm"
    activate
    set new_term to (create window with default profile)
    tell new_term
        tell the current session
            repeat with arg in argv
               write text "cd \"$cdto\"$cmd"
            end repeat
        end tell
    end tell
end tell
end run
EOF