How to make Microsoft Keyboard special keys run osascript commands on OSX?

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Published on 2010-03-11T19:45:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 19:49 UTC
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I'm trying to make (1) special key open new terminal window.

I bound it to file /Users/taw/bin/new_term, which contains:

#!/bin/sh
exec osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd ."'

This does the trick, except it also opens a Terminal window with this (even though Terminal.app is configured to always close windows when processes finish):

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/Users/taw/bin/new_term ; exit;
~$ /Users/taw/bin/new_term ; exit;
tab 1
logout

[Process completed]

How do I make it all work correctly? (possibly using a way different that what I've been attempting so far)

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