How to open an app in terminal and passing the current working directory?

Question

I often want to open the entire directory I'm working in by using the mate command, but how do I pass in the working directory itself?

For example, if I'm working in a rails app and I want to open the app folder into the TextMate tree, I would do mate app, but how could I pass in the working directory itself (i.e. open the entire rails app in the tree)?

Answer 1

The command you might be looking for is

pwd

Answer 2

# Assign the current work directory to the bash script variable 'CWD'.
CWD=$(pwd)

# Print it.
printf "%s\n" ${CWD}