Running a command in a new Mac OS X Terminal window

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to run a bash command in a new Max OS X Terminal.app window. As, an example, here's how I would run my command in a new bash process:

bash -c "my command here"

But this reuses the existing terminal window instead of creating a new one. I want something like:

Terminal.app -c "my command here"

But of course this doesn't work. I am aware of the "open -a Terminal.app" command, but I don't see how to forward arguments to the terminal, or even if I did what arguments to use.

Answer 1

one way I can think to do it off the top of my head is to create a .command file and run it like so:

echo echo hello > sayhi.command; chmod +x sayhi.command; open sayhi.command

or use applescript:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "echo hello"'

although you'll either have to escape a lot of double quotes or not be able to use single quotes