Create terminal command shortcut icon

Hello,
If someone would be kind enough to help me out with creating a shortcut terminal command that would be great. I was messing around with the Android SDK just for fun and was wondering how you can get it to launch a specific avd, so from Terminal I would type
/user/myaccount/applications/andriod/tools/emulator -avd Android-2.3.3
And it would open, how would you create a shortcut on the desktop to do this so I can just double click and it will open? In windows I would just modify the target and add the -avd or create a batch file, but not sure how to do this in OSX.
Thanks

so in text editor I put this line which if I open terminal and paste it will launch the emulator.
/Applications/Android-Emulator/tools/emulator -avd Android-2.3.3
saved the file, then did a chmod +x ./filename
change the extention to .command
When I double click I get an error
Last login: Thu Jul 14 21:24:12 on ttys000
/Users/Me/Desktop/Android.command ; exit;
MacBook-Pro:~ me$ /Users/Me/Desktop/Android.command ; exit;
/Users/me/Desktop/Android.command: line 1: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252cocoartf1038cocoasubrtf360: command not found
/Users/me/Desktop/Android.command: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/Users/me/Desktop/Android.command: line 2: `{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}'
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