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)?

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

The command you might be looking for is

pwd

Solution 3

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

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

Solution 4

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)

Solution 5

mate `pwd`/yourfile

mate `pwd`/app

Or you can using mate $PWD/app

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