Spawn a new terminal window from the terminal

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Is there any terminal command I can execute that will pop open a new terminal window?

I need something that will work in OSX' Terminal.app, but it would be nice if there were a way to do this that works on any common terminal emulator.

The terminal emulator xterm is nearly everywhere installed. — jofel, Dec 11, 2013 at 22:57
xterm & will work but on OSX you'll need the X11 app installed. I can't recall if it is by default or has to be installed separately (xcode?) — casey, Dec 12, 2013 at 0:06

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:39:56Z

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Other than typing xterm I believe on OSX you do this:

$ open -a Terminal.app bash

I think you can also do this:

$ /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal

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answered Dec 12, 2013 at 0:12

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