batguebi01: A script to automatically open a Terminal window to its directory

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

A script to automatically open a Terminal window to its directory

How many times have you been to a folder in Finder and needed a Terminal window open to that folder? For me, the answer was many. So, I wrote little AppleScript to take care of it automatically.

This script works by opening a Terminal window and cd'ing into the directory the script was in. Just copy the script into every folder you want to use if from; it's got a tiny footprint. Here's the code:

 set myPath to (do shell script "dirname " & quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to me) as string)) as string tell application "Terminal"   activate   do script ("cd " & quoted form of myPath) end tell

Paste this into AppleScript Editor and save it as an application. Copy it into each folder you'll want to use it with.

I recommend naming it something like " Terminal" (the space in f ...