#Os x open terminal how to

I’m too lazy to provide a new screen snapshot today, but here in 2023, my OpenTerminalInFinderDir.scpt script appears at the bottom of a similar-looking menu on the menubar. When you combine this with enabling AppleScript in the Mac menubar (see the link below), the result looks something like this: Under macOS, that could be Terminal.app, iTerm2 or others, and under Linux you could have people running GNOME Terminal, Konsole. While macOS uses Unix underneath, the terminal applications under macOS and Linux are completely different, and the user might have different terminals installed. app directory, which solves the problem of the superfluous terminal window, but has some other issues (for example OS X seems to treat each resulting iTerm window as a separate app, cluttering my dock). A workaround I found was to wrap the script in an. Here in April, 2023, I named this file OpenTerminalInFinderDir.scpt, and put it in either /Library/Scripts/AlsScripts or ~/Library/Scripts/AlsScripts. There's no cross-platform command do to that. The terminal window doesn't appear if I run the script directly from another terminal. When I have a Mac Finder window in the foreground and run this script from the AppleScript menu on the macOS menubar, it opens a new Mac Terminal window, and automatically places me in the same directory as the current Finder folder. Apples Terminal app is a direct interface to OS Xs bash shell part of its UNIX underpinnings. Set thePath to (quoted form of POSIX path of (target of myWin as alias)) Fortunately the script code is relatively readable. I couldn’t find any other way to do this, so I finally wrote an AppleScript script to do it. AppleScript code to open a Terminal in the current Finder folderįor a while I have wanted to be able to open a Mac Terminal window in the same directory as the Mac Finder folder that I’m currently looking at.

#Os x open terminal how to

Apple/macOS Terminal/Finder tip: This tutorial shows how to open a Mac Terminal window in the current Finder folder by using AppleScript.