How do I start jupyter notebook from command-line to run in my current directory, without editing config files or passing hard paths?

Question

Juypter notebook currently has a limitation: Starting terminal in current directory

How do I do this from command-line (no Anaconda or other GUI), without the following unacceptable hacky approaches? (and in particular where the notebook directory might well change between invocations, or between users?)

1. Manually edit the hard path into your jupyter notebook config file, in the c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir parameter

2. Embed hard paths into your notebook code. Must be absolute paths. (yukky). Also user-dependent. Can't distribute notebooks which handle files properly with paths relative to their install dir. Or across machines.

Solution 1

Best solution found so far (on Unix):

jupyter notebook --notebook-dir  `pwd` &

because

jupyter notebook --notebook-dir  . &

(relative-paths) won't work for commands from inside the notebook.

Solution 2

If you are on Windows, go to command prompt by typing cmd in search box. In cmd prompt, change directory to the path where you want to open Jupyter notebook. This can be done by typing

cd C:\your path here \

Next type in the changed path and press enter/

jupyter notebook

Similarly you can type 'jupyter lab' for jupyter lab

And you are done.