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Add an icon to your finder toolbar to open iTerm in the current folder.

Open iTerm from finder

The code and instructions in this gist are from http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html. I've had to do this a few times and wanted to distill it the basics.

  1. Open Automator
  2. Create an Application
  3. Choose Actions > Utilities > Run Applescript
  4. Paste the contents of open_in_iterm.app into the window.
  5. Save the script somewhere convenient
  6. Find the script, then drag the script onto the Finder window while holding the command key (or in Yosemite, the command + option keys)
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
set dir_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of (folder of the front window as alias))
end tell
CD_to(dir_path)
end run
on CD_to(theDir)
tell application "iTerm"
activate
try
set sesh to current session of current terminal
on error
set term to (make new terminal)
tell term
launch session "Default"
set sesh to current session
end tell
end try
tell sesh
write text "cd " & theDir & ";clear;"
end tell
end tell
end CD_to
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