Aral Balkan

Open iTerm tab in same directory.

UPDATE: You don’t need any AppleScript, there’s apparently already a preference in iTerm 2 (*doh!*, thanks to Robin Mehner for pointing it out). I’m leaving this up here in case the AppleScript comes in handy. That’ll teach me to ask the #lazyweb first.

21 March, 2013 A little AppleScript application to open a new iTerm tab in the directory you’re currently in.

I often want to open a new tab in iTerm 2 that launches in the same directory that the current tab is in so I whipped up a little AppleScript application to do just that. I launch it via a hotkey defined in an Alfred 2 workflow. I thought some of you mind also find it useful, so here it is:

tell application "iTerm"
  activate current terminal
  tell the current terminal
    tell the current session
      write text "pwd | pbcopy"
    end tell
    set newSession to (launch session "Default Session")
    # For some reason, telling the new session something dummy like the next line speeds up the process greatly.
    tell newSession to write ""
    tell newSession to write text "cd `pbpaste`"
  end tell
end tell

Downloads

• AppleScript application (53kb, zipped)
• AppleScript source (2kb, .scpt)
• Alfred Workflow (16kb, .alfredworkflow)