Opening a new terminal tab in OSX(Snow Leopard) with the opening terminal windows directory path

Question

I\'ve been Googling for a while looking for a simple way to do this, and I can\'t find one.

I have a custom terminal environment set up (zsh) with various aliases and fu

Answer 1

You can get what you want by modifying the BASH script found at http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2008/06/27/Terminal-Tricks-“term”-revisited-with-tabs. Here is the script, taken from Marc Linyage's site www.entropy.ch/blog.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Open a new Mac OS X terminal window or tab in the current or another
# directory and optionally run a command in the new window or tab.
#
# - Without any arguments, the new terminal window opens in
#   the current directory, i.e. the executed command is "cd $PWD".
# - If the first argument is a directory, the new terminal will "cd" into
#   that directory before executing the remaining arguments as command.
# - The optional "-t" flag executes the command in a new tab 
#   instead of a new window.
# - The optional "-x" flag closes the new window or tab
#   after the executed command finishes.
# - The optional "-p" flag takes an argument of the form x,y (e.g. 40,50) and
#   positions the terminal window to the indicated location on the screen
# - The optional "-s" flag takes an argument of the form w,h (e.g. 800,400) and
#   resizes the terminal window to the indicated width and height in pixels.
#
# Written by Marc Liyanage 
#
# Version 2.1
#

set -e

while getopts xtp:s: OPTION; do
    [ $OPTION = "x" ] && { EXIT='; exit'; }
    [ $OPTION = "t" ] && { TAB=1; }
    [ $OPTION = "p" ] && { POSITION="set position of window 1 to {$OPTARG}"; }
    [ $OPTION = "s" ] && { SIZE="set size of window 1 to {$OPTARG}"; }
done

for (( $OPTIND; $OPTIND-1; OPTIND=$OPTIND-1 )); do shift; done

if [[ -d "$1" ]]; then WD=$(cd "$1"; pwd); shift; else WD=$PWD; fi


COMMAND="cd '$WD' && echo -n \$'\\\\ec';"
for i in "$@"; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND '$i'"
done

if [ $TAB ]; then

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