Multiple instances of Terminal?

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untz

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When ever I click on Terminal and the shell appears, sometimes, I need to click on Terminal and leave the old Terminal minimized while needing to invoke a new Terminal instance... What happens is that it just maximizes the original Terminal that I launched...

How can I run multiple instances of Terminal?
 
If you want to run multiple shells in one instance of Terminal, then yeah, what Gia and Viro said. But if you want to run multiple instances, so you have more than one icon of Terminal in your Dock, then look up the fork command.
 
Fork command? Isn't fork() a C system call that clones the current process and spawns a child process? Didn't think you could just access it from the shell.
 
Sure you can. It will clone the process you pass to it, which I believe is the UID of the program you want to clone. man fork :)
 
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