Once installed, run ttab -h for concise usage information, or man ttab to view the manual.īuilding on the accepted answer, below is a bash convenience function for opening a new tab in the current Terminal window and optionally executing a command (as a bonus, there's a variant function for creating a new window instead). (depending on how you installed Node.js, you may have to prepend sudo). If you have Node.js installed, simply run: npm install -g ttab However, a more fully featured, more robust, tested script version is now available at the npm registry as CLI ttab, which also supports iTerm2: Update: This answer gained popularity based on the shell function posted below, which still works as of OSX 10.10 (with the exception of the -g option).
