Split window programmatically with iTerm?

Solution 1:

You can easily call this from iTerm2 directly to simulate pressing ⌘D:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 2 using command down'

For this to work you want to start the programs in background, since otherwise you cannot run osascript:

some-command &
osascript -e '…'

From there on you'll land in a new iTerm2 window, so you need to use the write text option in AppleScript to run further shell commands. See here for more: How do I set up an AppleScript to open a new iTerm2 tab and change the directory?

Solution 2:

the answer here is a bit outdated.. here is an example script that does somethign similar:

tell application "iTerm"
    tell current window
        -- create a tab for background db stuff
        create tab with default profile
        tell current session
            write text "mongod &"
            write text "redis-server &"
        end tell
        close current tab

        -- create tab to run aioc server
        create tab with default profile
        tell current session
            write text "title server"
            write text "aactivate"
            write text "arunserver"
            -- split tab vertically to run scheduler
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

        -- run scheduler
        tell last session of last tab
            write text "title scheduler"
            write text "aactivate"
            write text "ascheduler"
            -- split tab vertically to run main controller
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

        -- run main_controller
        tell last session of last tab
            write text "title main_controller"
            write text "aactivate"
            write text "amain_controller"
            -- split tab vertically to run aggregator
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

        tell last session of last tab
            write text "title aggregator"
            write text "aactivate"
            write text "aggregator"
        end tell




    end tell
end tell