The title of this post isn’t exactly accurate. I’ll be the first to admit it’s a little misleading. Well, maybe more than a little. In fact, the title is a dissembling of epic proportion. But the SPIRIT of the title is alive and well in this mini-tutorial and, if you can believe that, you can follow along with the rest of this tutorial.

Typically when a user new to Mac OS’s UNIX layer needs to open a directory in Terminal, he or she will type cd and drag-and-drop the folder of interest onto the Terminal window. Like this

Open Terminal Here, available on Mark Liyanage’s AppleScript Projects page, helps reduce this needless overhead. Download and unzip OpenTerminalHere.app and place it somewhere appropriate, like ~/Library/Scripts/. Combined with keyboard shortcut software, opening a Terminal window to any folder is now a matter of using Finder to navigate and pressing a single keyboard shortcut!1

Compare the methods in a side-by-side time trial.