Run a shell script in a new Terminal window from another shell script (OS X)

Question

How can I make a shell script open multiple new Terminal windows that executes each their shell script? Just like asked here, but in OS X.

I've got a for-each loop which runs trough all the given arguments and should execute a script in a new Terminal window for each given argument (and pass on the argument).

This is what I've tried:

#!/bin/bash

for arg in $@ do

  open -a Terminal ./somescript.sh --args $arg

done

Have you looked at this? stackoverflow.com/questions/4404242/… — d3v_1
– d3v_1, Commented Sep 9, 2016 at 14:52

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09 16:03:02Z

2

I think you mean this:

#!/bin/bash
for arg in "$@"; do
  osascript <<EOF
tell application "Terminal" to do script "echo \"$arg\""
EOF
done

Then run:

chmod +x aboveScript
./aboveScript a b "cd ef"

If you like that, change the echo to ./somescript.

edited Sep 9, 2016 at 16:03

answered Sep 9, 2016 at 15:49

Mark Setchell

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2 Comments

Ferdinand Over a year ago

Is it possible to achieve without osascript? I'm supposed to just use bash. I've got it working in Linux by writing gnome-terminal -x somescript.sh $arg and hoped to find something similar for OS X.

Mark Setchell Over a year ago

If you install XQuartz (X11 Windows for OSX) you can run xterm -e "..." just as on Linux.

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