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)?

So you want the TextMate Project window to expand the contents of the app folder? — RyanWilcox, Dec 27 '11 at 13:28
Nope I just want to open the current working directory straight into textmate — Alex Coplan, Dec 27 '11 at 13:30

score 58 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '11 at 11:51

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The command you might be looking for is

pwd

answered Dec 26 '11 at 11:51

JohnRos

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This will not work if the cwd is not the same directory where the script lays down. – László Papp Sep 12 '14 at 09:04

alk · Answer 2 · 2014-08-15T07:01:03.103

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

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

edited Aug 15 '14 at 07:01

answered Dec 28 '11 at 19:29

alk

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '11 at 13:09

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mate . will open the currently directory. I use the . directory a lot, for example open finder for the current directory open ..

answered Dec 26 '11 at 13:09

Mattias Wadman

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 26 '11 at 11:52

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Getting the current directory is as simple as typing pwd, or echo $PWD.

Now, if you want to open TextMate in a particular directory, you can do:

(cd /target/directory && mate)

answered Dec 26 '11 at 11:52

fge

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you don't need brackets for it. – Nozim Jun 06 '14 at 08:20

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 26 '11 at 12:47

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mate `pwd`/yourfile

mate `pwd`/app

Or you can using mate $PWD/app

answered Dec 26 '11 at 12:47

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(comment deleted, I see what the author was asking now) – RyanWilcox Dec 27 '11 at 13:25

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 12 '14 at 08:10

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DIR=$(readlink -f $0);
IFS='/' read -a array <<< "$DIR";
apath=("${array[@]:0:${#array[@]}-1}");
rpath=$(IFS=/ ; echo "${apath[*]}");
cd $rpath

answered Sep 12 '14 at 08:10

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 06 '15 at 21:06

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The current working directory as set by the cd command is available in shell variable PWD, e.g.

echo $PWD

answered Feb 06 '15 at 21:06

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