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Is there something similar to the  Open Command Window Here  Windows Powertoy for Mac OS  I ve found a couple plugins through a google search but wanted to see what works best for developers out there

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An application that I ve found indispensible as an alternative is DTerm  which actually opens a mini terminal right in your application  Plus it works with just about everything out there - Finder  XCode  PhotoShop  etc

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I mostly use this function   cf       cd    osascript -e  tell app  Finder  to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias         You could also assign a shortcut to a script like the ones below   Reuse an existing tab or create a new window  Terminal    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  Terminal      if  exists window 1  and not busy of window 1 then         do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p in window 1     else         do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p     end if     activate end tell   Reuse an existing tab or create a new tab  Terminal    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  Terminal      if not  exists window 1  then reopen     activate     if busy of window 1 then         tell application  System Events  to keystroke  t  using command down     end if     do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p in window 1 end tell   Always create a new tab  iTerm 2    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  iTerm      if exists current terminal then         current terminal     else         make new terminal     end if     tell  launch session  Default   of result to write text  cd    amp  quoted form of p     activate end tell   The first two scripts have two advantages compared to the services added in 10 7    They use the folder on the title bar instead of requiring you to select a folder first  They reuse the frontmost tab if it is not busy  e g  running a command  displaying a man page  or running emacs

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Clarification  thanks  vgm64   if you re already in Terminal  this lets you quickly change to the topmost Finder window without leaving Terminal  This way  you can avoid using the mouse   I ve added the following to my  bash profile so I can type cdff in Terminal at any time     function ff   osascript -e  tell application  Finder     -e  if    1-1   lt    count Finder windows   then    -e  get POSIX path of  target of window   1-1  as alias     -e  else  -e  get POSIX path of  desktop as alias     -e  end if  -e  end tell        function cdff   cd   ff            This is from this macosxhints com Terminal hint

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I created a bundle with 3 apps for the finder toolbar  The other two apps do    open Textmate with the current selection open GitX with the current folder   For more information see here  http   nslog de posts 71

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There is a bug in the AppleScript on OSX 10 6   2 terminal windows open    I fixed this by adding the close command after activate  This close the first Terminal window   on run     tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 close                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end run

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Also  you can copy an item from the finder using command-C  jump into the Terminal  e g  using Spotlight or QuickSilver  type  cd   and simply paste  with command-v

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There is an updated version of the very nice and slim Open Terminal Here posted by vgm64 and d0k  The change was made by james david low  He published the new version on his site  Just download OpenTerminalHere zip  extract it  move the bundle to your Library Scripts folder and drag it from there to your Finder toolbar   What is special about it is that it always opens a new tab if a Terminal app window is already open  Very useful  I also noted that the style of the button of the application better fits the Snow Leopard Finder app style than cdto posted by redacted did

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I created a bundle with 3 apps for the finder toolbar  The other two apps do    open Textmate with the current selection open GitX with the current folder   For more information see here  http   nslog de posts 71

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This   https   github com jbtule cdto cd-to  It s a small app that you drag into the Finder toolbar  the icon fits in very nicely  It works with Terminal  xterm  under X11   iterm

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An application that I ve found indispensible as an alternative is DTerm  which actually opens a mini terminal right in your application  Plus it works with just about everything out there - Finder  XCode  PhotoShop  etc

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There is an updated version of the very nice and slim Open Terminal Here posted by vgm64 and d0k  The change was made by james david low  He published the new version on his site  Just download OpenTerminalHere zip  extract it  move the bundle to your Library Scripts folder and drag it from there to your Finder toolbar   What is special about it is that it always opens a new tab if a Terminal app window is already open  Very useful  I also noted that the style of the button of the application better fits the Snow Leopard Finder app style than cdto posted by redacted did

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Ok  I realize that this is a bit late    maybe this alternative wasn t available at the moment of writing the post    Anyway  I ve found installing the pos package via Fink  a prerequisite in this case  maybe there is something similar for those who uses MacPorts   to be the easiest solution  You get two commands    posd - which gives the current directory of the frontmost Finder window  for which you presumably make an alias cdf cd posd   fdc - which switches the current directory of the frontmost Finder window to the Terminal pwd  This is slightly different from  open    which always opens a new finder window    Yes  you have to switch to the Terminal window before writing cdf  but I suppose that s quite cheap comparing to clicking a button in the Finder toolbar  And it works with iTerm as well  you don t have to download a separate Finder toolbar button that opens an iTerm window  This is the same approach as proposed by PCheese  but you don t have to clutter your  bash profile

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As of Mac OS X Lion 10 7  Terminal includes exactly this functionality as a Service  As with most Services  these are disabled by default  so you ll need to enable this to make it appear in the Services menu      System Preferences   Keyboard   Shortcuts   Services   Enable New Terminal at Folder  There s also New Terminal Tab at Folder  which will create a tab in the frontmost Terminal window  if any  else it will create a new window   These Services work in all applications  not just Finder  and they operate on folders as well as absolute pathnames selected in text   You can even assign command keys to them   Services appear in the Services submenu of each application menu  and within the contextual menu  Control-Click or Right-Click on a folder or pathname    The New Terminal at Folder service will become active when you select a folder in Finder  You cannot simply have the folder open and run the service  in place   Go back to the parent folder  select the relevant folder  then activate the service via the Services menu or context menu   In addition  Lion Terminal will open a new terminal window if you drag a folder  or pathname  onto the Terminal application icon  and you can also drag to the tab bar of an existing window to create a new tab   Finally  if you drag a folder or pathname onto a tab  in the tab bar  and the foreground process is the shell  it will automatically execute a  cd  command   Dragging into the terminal view within the tab merely inserts the pathname on its own  as in older versions of Terminal    You can also do this from the command line or a shell script   open -a Terminal  path to folder   This is the command-line equivalent of dragging a folder pathname onto the Terminal application icon   On a related note  Lion Terminal also has new Services for looking up man pages  Open man page in Terminal displays the selected man page topic in a new terminal window  and Search man Pages in Terminal performs  apropos  on the selected text  The former also understands man page references   open 2     man page command line arguments   2 open   and man page URLs   x-man-page   2 open

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I mostly use this function   cf       cd    osascript -e  tell app  Finder  to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias         You could also assign a shortcut to a script like the ones below   Reuse an existing tab or create a new window  Terminal    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  Terminal      if  exists window 1  and not busy of window 1 then         do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p in window 1     else         do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p     end if     activate end tell   Reuse an existing tab or create a new tab  Terminal    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  Terminal      if not  exists window 1  then reopen     activate     if busy of window 1 then         tell application  System Events  to keystroke  t  using command down     end if     do script  cd    amp  quoted form of p in window 1 end tell   Always create a new tab  iTerm 2    tell application  Finder  to set p to POSIX path of  insertion location as alias  tell application  iTerm      if exists current terminal then         current terminal     else         make new terminal     end if     tell  launch session  Default   of result to write text  cd    amp  quoted form of p     activate end tell   The first two scripts have two advantages compared to the services added in 10 7    They use the folder on the title bar instead of requiring you to select a folder first  They reuse the frontmost tab if it is not busy  e g  running a command  displaying a man page  or running emacs

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This   https   github com jbtule cdto cd-to  It s a small app that you drag into the Finder toolbar  the icon fits in very nicely  It works with Terminal  xterm  under X11   iterm

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This   https   github com jbtule cdto cd-to  It s a small app that you drag into the Finder toolbar  the icon fits in very nicely  It works with Terminal  xterm  under X11   iterm

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Also  you can copy an item from the finder using command-C  jump into the Terminal  e g  using Spotlight or QuickSilver  type  cd   and simply paste  with command-v

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Ok  I realize that this is a bit late    maybe this alternative wasn t available at the moment of writing the post    Anyway  I ve found installing the pos package via Fink  a prerequisite in this case  maybe there is something similar for those who uses MacPorts   to be the easiest solution  You get two commands    posd - which gives the current directory of the frontmost Finder window  for which you presumably make an alias cdf cd posd   fdc - which switches the current directory of the frontmost Finder window to the Terminal pwd  This is slightly different from  open    which always opens a new finder window    Yes  you have to switch to the Terminal window before writing cdf  but I suppose that s quite cheap comparing to clicking a button in the Finder toolbar  And it works with iTerm as well  you don t have to download a separate Finder toolbar button that opens an iTerm window  This is the same approach as proposed by PCheese  but you don t have to clutter your  bash profile

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It s a bit more than you re asking for  but I recommend Cocoatech s Path Finder for anyone who wishes the Finder had a bit more juice  It includes a toolbar button to open a Terminal window for the current directory  or a retractable pane with a Terminal command line at the bottom of each Finder window  Plus many other features that I now can t live without  Very mature  stable software  http   cocoatech com

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Also  you can copy an item from the finder using command-C  jump into the Terminal  e g  using Spotlight or QuickSilver  type  cd   and simply paste  with command-v

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Check out Open Terminal Here  It may be the most similar to  Open Command Window Here   I used  gt cdto and this is very similar but this seems to be a little better at dealing with Spaces    but not perfect    What it has that is very nice is the ability to  detect key-down events at the start of the application and used them to modify the behavior of the script  allowing the script to open a new tab in the front most terminal window when invoked by holding down   key  Neat trick   Also note PCheese s answer  it is probably more useful for heavy terminal users

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Check out Open Terminal Here  It may be the most similar to  Open Command Window Here   I used  gt cdto and this is very similar but this seems to be a little better at dealing with Spaces    but not perfect    What it has that is very nice is the ability to  detect key-down events at the start of the application and used them to modify the behavior of the script  allowing the script to open a new tab in the front most terminal window when invoked by holding down   key  Neat trick   Also note PCheese s answer  it is probably more useful for heavy terminal users

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If you install Big Cat Scripts  http   www ranchero com bigcat   you can add your own contextual menu  right click  items   I don t think it comes with an Open Terminal Here applescript but I use this script  which I don t honestly remember if I wrote myself  or lifted from someone else s example      on main filelist      tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end main     Similar scripts can also get you the complete path to a file on right-click  which is even more useful  I find

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It s a bit more than you re asking for  but I recommend Cocoatech s Path Finder for anyone who wishes the Finder had a bit more juice  It includes a toolbar button to open a Terminal window for the current directory  or a retractable pane with a Terminal command line at the bottom of each Finder window  Plus many other features that I now can t live without  Very mature  stable software  http   cocoatech com

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There is a bug in the AppleScript on OSX 10 6   2 terminal windows open    I fixed this by adding the close command after activate  This close the first Terminal window   on run     tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 close                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end run

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If you install Big Cat Scripts  http   www ranchero com bigcat   you can add your own contextual menu  right click  items   I don t think it comes with an Open Terminal Here applescript but I use this script  which I don t honestly remember if I wrote myself  or lifted from someone else s example      on main filelist      tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end main     Similar scripts can also get you the complete path to a file on right-click  which is even more useful  I find

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This   https   github com jbtule cdto cd-to  It s a small app that you drag into the Finder toolbar  the icon fits in very nicely  It works with Terminal  xterm  under X11   iterm

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If like me you turn off the Finder toolbar  this Service adds an item to every folder s contextual menu  http   blog leenarts net 2009 09 03 open-service-here   This also allows you to open any folder you see in Finder tree view

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If like me you turn off the Finder toolbar  this Service adds an item to every folder s contextual menu  http   blog leenarts net 2009 09 03 open-service-here   This also allows you to open any folder you see in Finder tree view

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If you install Big Cat Scripts  http   www ranchero com bigcat   you can add your own contextual menu  right click  items   I don t think it comes with an Open Terminal Here applescript but I use this script  which I don t honestly remember if I wrote myself  or lifted from someone else s example      on main filelist      tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end main     Similar scripts can also get you the complete path to a file on right-click  which is even more useful  I find

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If you install Big Cat Scripts  http   www ranchero com bigcat   you can add your own contextual menu  right click  items   I don t think it comes with an Open Terminal Here applescript but I use this script  which I don t honestly remember if I wrote myself  or lifted from someone else s example      on main filelist      tell application  Finder          try             activate             set frontWin to folder of front window as string             set frontWinPath to  get POSIX path of frontWin              tell application  Terminal                  activate                 do script with command  cd      amp  frontWinPath  amp                   end tell         on error error message             beep             display dialog error message buttons                      OK   default button 1         end try     end tell end main     Similar scripts can also get you the complete path to a file on right-click  which is even more useful  I find

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Clarification  thanks  vgm64   if you re already in Terminal  this lets you quickly change to the topmost Finder window without leaving Terminal  This way  you can avoid using the mouse   I ve added the following to my  bash profile so I can type cdff in Terminal at any time     function ff   osascript -e  tell application  Finder     -e  if    1-1   lt    count Finder windows   then    -e  get POSIX path of  target of window   1-1  as alias     -e  else  -e  get POSIX path of  desktop as alias     -e  end if  -e  end tell        function cdff   cd   ff            This is from this macosxhints com Terminal hint

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Also  you can copy an item from the finder using command-C  jump into the Terminal  e g  using Spotlight or QuickSilver  type  cd   and simply paste  with command-v

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As of Mac OS X Lion 10 7  Terminal includes exactly this functionality as a Service  As with most Services  these are disabled by default  so you ll need to enable this to make it appear in the Services menu      System Preferences   Keyboard   Shortcuts   Services   Enable New Terminal at Folder  There s also New Terminal Tab at Folder  which will create a tab in the frontmost Terminal window  if any  else it will create a new window   These Services work in all applications  not just Finder  and they operate on folders as well as absolute pathnames selected in text   You can even assign command keys to them   Services appear in the Services submenu of each application menu  and within the contextual menu  Control-Click or Right-Click on a folder or pathname    The New Terminal at Folder service will become active when you select a folder in Finder  You cannot simply have the folder open and run the service  in place   Go back to the parent folder  select the relevant folder  then activate the service via the Services menu or context menu   In addition  Lion Terminal will open a new terminal window if you drag a folder  or pathname  onto the Terminal application icon  and you can also drag to the tab bar of an existing window to create a new tab   Finally  if you drag a folder or pathname onto a tab  in the tab bar  and the foreground process is the shell  it will automatically execute a  cd  command   Dragging into the terminal view within the tab merely inserts the pathname on its own  as in older versions of Terminal    You can also do this from the command line or a shell script   open -a Terminal  path to folder   This is the command-line equivalent of dragging a folder pathname onto the Terminal application icon   On a related note  Lion Terminal also has new Services for looking up man pages  Open man page in Terminal displays the selected man page topic in a new terminal window  and Search man Pages in Terminal performs  apropos  on the selected text  The former also understands man page references   open 2     man page command line arguments   2 open   and man page URLs   x-man-page   2 open

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