How to spawn a new tab in same directory as previous directory? [closed] - windows-terminal

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I want to simply start a new tab in the same folder as my previous tab that I was in. Is this possible, and if so how? This is with the Windows Terminal by the way.
Now if I open a new tab, it will open in home directory (which is configured in the Windows Terminal's settings page).

Answer 1

Open the windows terminal
Click the dropdown button
Click the settings option
set the startingDirectory value to "./"
Example
"profiles":
{
"defaults":
{
// Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles.
"startingDirectory": "./" <---- set this value
}

Answer 2

The Windows Terminal command line interface (wt.exe) can be used to achieve this, but with a command instead of a keyboard shortcut.
wt -w 0 nt -d .
-w 0: Use the current terminal window.
nt or new-tab: Create a new tab.
-d .: Start the process in the current directory.
Doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/terminal/command-line-arguments

Answer 3

Zsh
If you are using Zsh, you can add this to ~/.zshrc
[[ -n "$WT_SESSION" ]] && {
chpwd() {
echo -en '\e]9;9;"'
wslpath -w "$PWD" | tr -d '\n'
echo -en '"\x07'
}
}
After that, you can use duplicate tab in Windows Terminal to open the same directory in new tab
Bash
You can also do similar thing in Bash
my_prompt() {
echo -en '\e]9;9;"'
wslpath -w "$PWD" | tr -d '\n'
echo -en '"\x07'
}
export PROMPT_COMMAND=my_prompt
Explanation
$WT_SESSION is an environment set by Windows Terminal. This will ensure we define this escape sequence only in WT.
chpwd() is a callback function that Zsh will invoke whenever it changes the working directory.
Inside the chpwd() it will send a OSC 9;9 escape sequence. This will tell the terminal (many terminals including Windows Terminal) that the CWD of the shell has been changed.
The syntax of OSC 9;9 escape sequence is \e]9;9;"C:\Temp\"\x07
The C:\Temp\ in the sequence has to be Windows-style path. It can point to some path in WSL (e.g. \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-20.04\home\superman\bin). When opening new tab, the shells will open corresponding UNIX path (e.g. /home/superman/bin).

Answer 4

This is not currently possible, as explained here https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1437 the issue is closed at the moment but could perhaps be re-opened in future.

Answer 5

I've found something interesting.... This worked for me... You can put:
"startingDirectory": "./"
In the terminal configuration....
Example
{
// Make changes here to the powershell.exe profile.
"guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
"name": "Windows PowerShell",
"commandline": "powershell.exe",
"startingDirectory": "./",
"hidden": false
},

Answer 6

You can always rewrite setting json evertime you open a tab but its a shell specific hack.
Put this function into $PROFILE (make sure to adjust $path)
function sd {
$path = 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json'
((Get-Content -path $path) -replace '"startingDirectory":.*', ("`"startingDirectory`": `"$pwd`"") -replace "\\", "\\") | Set-Content -Path $path
}
Solution taken from here.

Answer 7

dotnet tool install -g p2u
p2u dir ${PWD}
Then CTRL+SHIFT+D
Hopefully it will work with split pane as well
Same idea of #apena but now with a dotnet tool. For further details: https://github.com/celsojr/p2u

Answer 8

Also a similar vein as #apena's post as it is specific to bash.
In my case I wanted Debian to open on my current working directory.
Although I couldn't exactly get this behavior I was able to get it to open the last directory visited (effectively) using a few hacks:
In my linux distro, I added this to my .bashrc to intercept all calls to cd and store the last call to cd into a destination of my choice.
cd() {
builtin cd "$#" ; echo $PWD > /opt/chdir/lastestdir
}
Next, since Windows Terminal didn't let me inline the command, I created this batch script to in a custom location:
#echo off
for /F "tokens=*" %%n IN (\\wsl$\Debian\opt\chdir\lastestdir) DO #(wsl.exe -d Debian --cd \\wsl$\Debian%%n)
NOTE: \\wsl$\Debian is the path to my distro within Powershell, and the \opt\chdir\lastestdir is based on the path I used in the previous step.
Next, I edited the profile for Debian in Windows terminal to point at my script:
I'm open for suggestions, but this let me happily duplicate my current directory to the next tab as long as it was the last terminal I had changed directory in.