Start Mac OS Emacs.app with command line arguments in background

Question

This way -- creating an executable script named ~/bin/emacs with the following contents -- is recommended on the Emacs Wiki:

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@"

However, when running emacs . , Emacs did not start in the current directory.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

This works for me:

#!/bin/sh
$(/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@") &