Opening a terminal window to a specific directory from a bash script How can I write a bash script in Mac OS X that opens a Terminal window in a specific directory?  I'd assume something like:

open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app


But that does nothing (maybe it's loading the Terminal application which is already open instead of launching a new Terminal window).  And of course it doesn't cd into a directory as I haven't specified that...
Here is a small script I knocked up :

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv
  set dir to quoted form of (first item of argv)
  tell app "Terminal" to do script "cd " &amp; dir
end run


If you save this and make it executable

chmod +x script_filename


and then run it 

script_filename ~/Desktop


then it will open up a new terminal window and change to the directory in the argument.