{"id":2495,"date":"2013-06-12T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:34:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:34:39","slug":"os-x-service-terminal-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2013\/06\/12\/os-x-service-terminal-here\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Service – Terminal Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I regularly find myself navigating to a folder in the Finder and then wanting to quickly get a Terminal window in the same location. In the past I would open a Terminal window, type cd<\/code> and a space, then drag and drop the folder in question from the Finder into the Terminal and hit enter. Thanks to OS X’s great drag-and-drop support that works, and while it is easier than typing out the whole path (even with tab-complete), it’s still quite cumbersome.<\/p>\n

Today inspiration hit me – the open<\/code> command should let me open a folder with the Terminal, so I tested it, and it does. Armed with this simple command line solution I opened up Automator and threw together a simple OS X service that takes a folder as input. The service has only one action, a Run Shell Script<\/code> action with the shell set to bash<\/code>, the input passed as arguments, and the following content:<\/p>\n

\r\nfor f in "$@"\r\ndo\r\n\t\/usr\/bin\/open "$f" -a \/Applications\/Utilities\/Terminal.app\/\r\ndone\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"Screenshot
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It will only take seconds to re-create this service yourself, but for convenience, I’ve zipped up my copy of the service and am attaching it to this post. Install it by unzipping and adding to either ~\/Library\/Services\/<\/code> (for just yourself) or \/Library\/Services\/<\/code> (for all users).<\/p>\n
\"Download\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Once the service is installed it will show up in the Services menu in the Finder when ever you have one or more folders selected:<\/p>\n
\"Terminal
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You can also get to the service by right-clicking on any folder in the Finder:<\/p>\n
\"Terminal
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Finally – if you keep the optional Path Bar shown in the Finder you can also right-click on a Folder there to access the service (including the folder you are in):<\/p>\n
\"Terminal
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I regularly find myself navigating to a folder in the Finder and then wanting to quickly get a Terminal window in the same location. In the past I would open a Terminal window, type cd and a space, then drag and drop the folder in question from the Finder into the Terminal and hit enter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-Ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}