Shane A. Stillwell
iTerm open tab in current working directory

iTerm open tab in current working directory

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Hold on Cowboy

This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. The Times They Are A-Changin'

I can’t believe I lived so long without looking for a fix to a common issue I have while in iTerm2. Maybe I’m running some GruntJS task that is updating the screen, but I want to do something in the CWD. So I would open another tab ⌘ + t, then cd ... to my cwd.

Instead just tell iTerm you want new tabs to open in the CWD.

  • Open up iTerm2 preferences ⌘ + ,
  • Go to Profiles > General
  • Now click on Edit under Advanced Configuration for Working Directory iterm
  • Now just select when you want it to open in the same directory like so iterm

Now you have an extra 10 seconds a day to do with whatever you want… live the freedom.