Finder to Bash

Create this a simple apple script (see code below, after the jump) in the ‘AppleScript Editor’, save as an Application, and drag it into your Finder’s toolbar. Clicking this button will open that folder in bash!  If you’re clever, you can open the package contents of ‘Terminal’, copy the icon file, then open the contents of your script application, find the icon and replace it with the Termainal one. Or if you’re lazy (and trusting) you can just download the one I prepared earlier.

In Lion you can also enable this as a right-click service of folders, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services and enable New Terminal at Folder or New Terminal Tab at Folder, then you can right click -> Services on any folder in finder and open it in Finder that way. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut.

Bash to Finder

If you’re in bash, you can simply open . to open the current directory in Finder (or open path/to/folder to open a different one). open-ing a file will also launch that file in the default app. Neat.

The full apple script. Sourced from macworld, but fixed to remove an extra blank window being shown if Terminal wasn’t already running.

# originally from: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020426093503563
# improved by William Denniss
on run
	tell application "Finder"
		try
			activate
			set frontWin to folder of front window as string
			set frontWinPath to (get POSIX path of frontWin)
			do shell script "open -a Terminal \"" & frontWinPath & "\""
		on error error_message
			beep
			display dialog error_message buttons ¬
				{"OK"} default button 1
		end try
	end tell
end run

An easy way to do it is to add a build script at the end of your build.

in XCode->Targets->YourBuildName
right click, and select Add -> New Build Phase -> New Run Script Build Phase

and copy in this script. ArchiveDSYMScript

Repeat for all targets. Ensure the order is after the ‘Link Binary With Libaries’ task.

NB. This excludes “Debug” and “Release” build types, as I use “Distribution” and “Distribution Ad-Hoc” for my distribution builds. Easy to change, if you need.