How to run shell scripts in series in terminal windows in Mac OS X

Question

In my Desktop/src/ directory I have shell scripts that I want to run in a series and some must run after the first has completed running and all the commands must run on new terminal window. I am working on Mac OS X.

So far I have tried the following code

osascript<<EOF
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "n" using command down
end

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM1.sh"
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM2.sh"
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM3.sh"
end tell
EOF

The problem is that startRM1.sh takes a little time to start, and startRM2.sh, startRM3.sh start straight away and crash since they must wait for startRM1.sh to complete All three of them must start in new window.

Edit: startRM1.sh is a server which keeps running; therefore the control never goes to the second step.

problem solved using following

osascript<<EOF
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "n" using command down
end

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM1.sh" in window 1
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "sleep 5 && cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM2.sh"
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "sleep 5 && cd Desktop/src/ && sh startRM3.sh"
end tell
EOF

Answer 1

Create a shellscript that is your start point.

You can create a .sh file that would could call:

source mynewShell.sh

and in that, it will have all the other files, called in the orders you need, and any config data etc