Opening a new terminal tab in OSX(Snow Leopard) with the opening terminal windows directory path

Question

I've been Googling for a while looking for a simple way to do this, and I can't find one.

I have a custom terminal environment set up (zsh) with various aliases and functions to make things easier. One thing I keep running into is that I will quickly APPLE-t to create a new tab and then type a command relative to the path of the terminal window I was just in. This invariably fails because the path of the new tab is ~/ instead of whatever I was just using! Any ideas for a script to set the directory path of the new terminal tabs to the directory path of the opening tab?

Any help most appreciated.

Ian

Answer 1

I have a couple of scripts I use:

dup (New window with the working dir):

#!/bin/sh
pwd=`pwd`
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"cd $pwd; clear\"" > /dev/null

and tup (New tab with the same working dir):

#!/bin/sh

pwd=`pwd`
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\"" \
    -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"t\" using {command down}" \
    -e "do script \"cd $pwd; clear\" in front window" \
    -e "end tell"
    > /dev/null

Answer 2

One other solution without scripting is iTerm2, which has this feature built in. It has even more features that make it worth checking out too.