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

OK, so as is my way I am answering my own question again (well at least getting close to answering it anyway)

I have found a less verbose script to the one above (courtesy of Dan Benjamin) that seems to do the trick, although both scripts output a similar error before successfully completing. I have dealt with that by adding clear to the end of the script so that's no big problem.

I say that I have nearly solved my own problem because my objective was to find a way to accomplish this with the Apple-t key command that has been burnt into my muscle memory as the shortcut for a new tab in anything, thanks to countless hours in various web browsers. The best I can manage with a script such as Dan's is t-return which isn't the biggest difference, but big enough that I will be slightly irked every time I issue said command. I know, I should let it go..... But I can't, which is probably how I got into this mess in the first place, endlessly fiddling with computers. I digress, here is the script I am using:

#!/bin/sh

# Make a new OS X Terminal tab with the current working directory.

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    PATHDIR=`pwd`
else
    PATHDIR=$1
fi

/usr/bin/osascript <

For completeness here is the error that gets spat out on the soliciting window if the trailing clear is omitted:

2009-10-20 01:30:38.714 osascript[20862:903] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types:  dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
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