The following Applescript can be used to open an Xterm to the path selected in the Finder. It is modified from the very useful website of Michael Eichberg. It can be used very effectively by 1) Opening the AppleScript Editor, entering the text, and saving it as an application, and 2) Dragging the application into the Finder's toolbar. Then you can simply select folders and click the application OpenXterm in the toolbar and an xterm will open to that directory. See Michael's page for detailed pictures of how to do this. (* Handler that activates the terminal app if necessary, and executes a "cd" command to switch to the given folder / path. *) on openXTerm(quoted_path) tell application "X11" activate end tell tell application "System Events" tell process "X11" tell menu bar 1 tell menu bar item "Applications" tell menu "Applications" click menu item "Terminal" end tell end tell end tell delay 0.5 tell window frontmost keystroke "cd " & quoted_path key code 36 end tell end tell end tell (*do script with command "cd " & quoted_path*) end openXTerm (* Opens a new terminal window with the current directory set to the folder selected by the user in the finder. If the user has selected multiple folders, a new window is opened for each folder. If the user has selected a file, the file's containing folder is used. If multiple files in the same directory are selected, only one terminal window is opened and the directory is set to the folder containing the files. *) tell application "Finder" set sels to selection if sels is not {} then -- set of paths for which we have already opened -- a terminal window set opened to {} repeat with sel in sels -- convert to an alias to be able to -- test if the selected item is a folder set sel to sel as alias try -- if this selected item is not a folder an -- exception is thrown exists folder sel on error set sel to (container of sel) end try -- convert the current path to a POSIX -- (UNIX) path. set sel to sel as text set p to POSIX path of sel -- quote to handle directories with white -- spaces set qp to p set qp to quoted form of p if opened does not contain qp then openXTerm(qp) of me set opened to opened & {qp} end if end repeat else (display dialog ¬ "You have to select a folder." with title ¬ "Error" with icon stop ¬ buttons {"OK"}) end if end tell |
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