How do you open a new Mac OS X Terminal from Terminal and have it be in the same directory? (Snow Leopard) [closed]

Question

I want to open a new terminal window from my current window. (like command+n opens a new terminal window that is in the same directory from the window I spawned it in). This has always annoyed me so today I want to solve it. Some bash script like

start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app -D CurrentDirectory

might work.

Also, my Lion machine does this automatically. I have Snow Leopard and I've searched through all the terminal preferences and the internet.

Answer 1

Try:

open -a Terminal "`pwd`" 

This works for me (on Lion) but provided you can run that command, it should work on Snow Leopard, I believe.

Answer 2

In your current Terminal window

pwd | pbcopy

Command-N to create a new window

cd "`pbpaste`"

The double quotes are necessary in case there is a space in your path, although I didn't test it.

The inner single quotes is the backtick character. It should work if you copy and paste the commands from my answer.

If you spend a lot of time in Terminal, consider using iTerm 2. It's got some great enhancements over Apple's Terminal.app.