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jbtule / cdto

cdto

Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-12 17:53:48 UTC to 2026-10-04 17:19:20 UTC.

0122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Free Basic Batch Rename Standard ZIP Compression Image Format Conversion (right click, "Quick Actions") Also removes background (better than GIMP does) Path Copying Tools Got 'em and since perl comes with the OS, this batch rename is my "go to" tool. $ more ren #!/usr/bin/env perl # Tom Christiansen <tchrist at convex.com>, in alt.sources, 90-12-08. # Modified by Fran?ois Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>, 91-04-19. # # rename script examples from lwall: # rename 's/\.orig$//' *.orig # rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/ unless /^Make/' * # rename '$_ .= ".bad"' *.f # rename 'print "$_: "; s/foo/bar/ if <stdin> =~ /^y/i' * $operation = shift; for (@ARGV) { $previous = $_; eval $operation; die $@ if $@; if ($previous ne $_) { if (-f $_) {
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warn "$0: $_ already exists\n"; } I also use cdto a lot. Put its icon in the finder toolbar and you can cd to the finder's location with one click. https://github.com/jbtule/cdto?tab=readme-ov-file#cd-to "Laziness is the mother of invention."
In FilesToolkit for Mac: Get More Done with Every Right-Click
> Back in March with the release of macOS Tahoe 26.4, Apple introduced a new security popup that warns Mac users when they paste a command into the Terminal app that could be harmful. Apple has now published a support document explaining why the popup warning appears. --- I cringe whenever I see a command cat ANYTHING | sh Do people actually read that ANYTHING? And I never paste into the terminal that I can recall. Tip: If you need to cd to a directory in the terminal, the "normal" procedure, I suppose is to type in "cd" and then drag an icon of the desired folder into the terminal window. Unless the folder's icon is in the sidebar or otherwise visible, this involves some "wagging" of the icon in its finder toolbar, something I find annoying. A utility that I used to use to help in this regard disappeared, but a new one showed up to take
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its place. cd to.app https://github.com/jbtule/cdto Once in the finder toolbar. "Click and you're there" in the terminal.
In Apple Details Terminal Anti-Scam Warning in macOS
Here's a nice tool to add more value to the Finder: https://github.com/jbtule/cdto/releases Add the app to the Finder toolbar then whenever you're in a folder and you want to open a terminal/iterm window in that folder just click the icon. Also, when you're in a terminal window and you want to open a Finder window in that directory just run the command: $ open . Tip: In Mavericks you have to hold command+option to drag an app into the toolbar. I forget the key combo for dragging it to the toolbar in Yosemite, I want to say either just command or no key combo is required.
In Ask HN: OS X folks – do you use Finder?

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