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A simple ruby script to create a new terminal window in the current directory.
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new_terminal_window.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
exec "osascript -e 'tell application \"terminal\"' -e \"do script \\\"cd #{Dir.pwd}\\\"\" -e 'end tell'"
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DavidBarry commented Mar 4, 2013

For convenience I've aliased this script to neww

Thanks to Luther Blissett for providing the AppleScript in this Stack Overflow answer to make this work.

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