How to open an app in terminal and passing the cur

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)?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

mate `pwd`/yourfile

mate `pwd`/app

Or you can using mate $PWD/app

Answer 3

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

echo $PWD

Answer 4

The command you might be looking for is

pwd

Answer 5

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

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

Answer 6

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)