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Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal.

• It's written in objective-c, and uses the scripting bridge so it's fast.
• It's also shell agnostic. Works equally well when your shell is bash or fish or zsh.

By Jay Tuley https://github.com/jbtule/cdto

Usage:

Download Latest cdto.zip

To install "cd to ....app" copy to your Applications folder, and then from the applications folder ⌘ drag it into the Finder toolbar or drag from another finder window to toolbar being customized.

To use, just click on the new button and instantly opens a new terminal window.

Settings

To turn on feature that identifies automatically opened Terminal windows, and closes them when using cd to.

defaults write name.tuley.jay.cd-to cdto-close-default-window -bool true

To change the window scheme for Terminal Windows from default.

Eg. if you wanted cd to windows to be "Red Sands"

defaults write name.tuley.jay.cd-to cdto-new-window-setting -string "Red Sands"

Changes:

Version 3.1.3

• Universal Binary for Apple Silicon and Intel
• Round Corner Icon

Version 3.1

• Restored name to "cd to.app"
• bug fix 3.0 introduced bug for opening windows without selection
• Faster
• Fix Regression: Hide icon in dock
• if package is selected, cd parent directory, if in package cd own directory
• Less entitlements
• Setting to enable feature that closes extra opened windows
• Setting to enable choosing a different terminal theme for opened windows

Version 3.0

• terminal app only supported, no plugins
• rewritten to only use apple events
• Hardened, and Notarized
• works on Mojave (and hopefully Catalina)

Version 2.6

• Fixed bug where get info window interferes
• works on selected folder again
• iTerm 2 plugin update

Version 2.5

• Lion Version
• Use terminal open apple event
• works with tcsh as well as bash
• New Icons

Version 2.3

• Snow Leopard Version

Version 2.2

• Clear Scroll-back on Terminal plugin (Thanks to Marc Liyanage for the original tip)
• Fixed issues with special characters in file path bug that existed for Terminal and iTerm plugin
• iTerm plugin will try to avoid opening two windows on iTerm launch
• Leopard icon

Version 2.1.1

• Fixed bug involving apostrophes in path
• PathFinder plugin (Finder->Pathfinder) contributed by Brian Koponen

Version 2.1

• Plugin archtexture allowing support for other terminals
• Default plugins for iTerm & X11/xterm
• Terminal plugin will try to avoid opening two windows on terminal.app's launch

Version 2.0 (2005)

• Ported to objective-c using appscript, boosting launch & execution speed
• properly resolves aliases
• no longer shows icon in dock on launch

Version 1.0 (2003)

• targeted Panther OS X 10.3
• was applescript

Pre 1.0 (2001) Really old applescript