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https://github.com/eteeselink/cdhere
Change the current console directory to wherever you're looking at in Windows Explorer
https://github.com/eteeselink/cdhere
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Change the current console directory to wherever you're looking at in Windows Explorer
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eteeselink/cdhere
- Owner: eteeselink
- License: zlib
- Created: 2013-03-26T09:09:28.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2014-05-15T12:16:47.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-31T20:45:11.817Z (6 months ago)
- Language: C++
- Size: 16.7 MB
- Stars: 17
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
CDHERE
======
A Windows command-line program that changes the current directory to
whatever directory the topmost Explorer window is looking at.
In other words, it is the reverse of the many "[Open][1] [Command][2]
[Window][3] [Here][4]" tricks that exist for various versions of Windows.
Instead of opening a new command window for each directory in which you want
to do work, you move the current directory in an existing console to where you
want it to be.
Installation
------------
* Download
and unzip it somewhere convenient.
* Run `addToPath.cmd` with administrator priviledges to add the directory to
your PATH, so that you can acces `cdhere` from anywhere.
Usage
-----
cdhere
Which looks like:
C:\Users\teeselinke>cdhere
D:\hobby\cdhere\cdhere\src>
Interactive mode
----------------
Add a `/d` for an interactive version of plain `cdhere`. Usage is simple:
cdhere /d
This will open a "Browse to folder" dialog, and your command-line window will change the current directory to the selected folder.
Usage from Bash
---------------
If you use Bash on Windows (e.g. through msys of cygwin), [ozh][9] recommends you add the following to your `~/.bash_profile`:
```sh
function cdhere {
CDWHERE=$(c:/path/to/cdhere/cdwhere.exe)
if [ "$CDWHERE" != "" ]; then
cd $CDWHERE
fi
}
```
Background
----------
Windows processes cannot change the directory of their parent process, but
batch files can. Therefore, `cdhere` consists of two files, a C++ program
called `cdwhere.exe` which finds the topmost Explorer window and queries it
for its current directory, and `cdhere.cmd`, which uses `cdwhere.exe`'s
output to actually change the directory.
Bugs
----
Please report bugs using GitHub's issue tracker at
Acknowledgements
----------------
The only not-entirely-trivial bit of this code is the part that asks an
Explorer window where it's pointed. This, however, is something that Raymond
Chen (of [The Old New Thing][5] fame) already worked out for me [back in 2004]
[6]. Much of the code you see here is little more than his example refactored.
The `/d` switch was contributed by [Danyil Bohdan][7]
License
-------
[zlib license][8]
[1]: http://www.mydigitallife.info/add-open-command-window-here-to-xp-folder-with-powertoy/
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1225574/103395
[3]: http://code.kliu.org/cmdopen/
[4]: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=211417
[5]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing
[6]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/20/188696.aspx
[7]: https://github.com/dbohdan
[8]: https://github.com/eteeselink/cdhere/raw/master/LICENSE.txt
[9]: https://github.com/ozh