MacOS X: How to have a handy "Open this folder in iTerm" shortcut?
This applescript works for me:
-- script was opened by click in toolbar
on run
tell application "Finder"
try
set currFolder to (folder of the front window as string)
on error
set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as string)
end try
end tell
CD_to(currFolder, false)
end run
-- script run by draging file/folder to icon
on open (theList)
set newWindow to false
repeat with thePath in theList
set thePath to thePath as string
if not (thePath ends with ":") then
set x to the offset of ":" in (the reverse of every character of thePath) as string
set thePath to (characters 1 thru -(x) of thePath) as string
end if
CD_to(thePath, newWindow)
set newWindow to true -- create window for any other files/folders
end repeat
return
end open
-- cd to the desired directory in iterm
on CD_to(theDir, newWindow)
set theDir to quoted form of POSIX path of theDir as string
tell application "iTerm"
activate
delay 1
-- talk to the first terminal
try
set myterm to the first terminal
on error
set myterm to (make new terminal)
end try
tell myterm
try
-- launch a default shell in a new tab in the same terminal
launch session "Default Session"
on error
display dialog "There was an error creating a new tab in iTerm." buttons {"OK"}
end try
tell the last session
try
-- cd to the finder window
write text "cd " & theDir
on error
display dialog "There was an error cding to the finder window." buttons {"OK"}
end try
end tell
end tell
end tell
end CD_to
Using the other answers on this page I have created an App that can be dragged into the finder task bar.
You can download it from here: https://github.com/rc1/iTermTo
There is an Open Terminal Here AppleScript that you should be able to modify to call iTerm instead. This MacOSXHints post should be helpful as well.
(I'm not on my Mac otherwise I would test it.)