Unix

Making Moving Around a Bit Easier

• ssh has a Window/New Terminal in Current Directory menu selection, however it appears to be a bit tempermental — it doesn't seem to always work for me.
• Here's a tip if you are working in a directory deep down your hierarchy (your Lecture<*> directories are pretty far down, for example), and you want to open a window and quickly get to the same directroy (for example, you were editing you program, and now want a window iun which to run the compiler).
  • Go to the original window (where you are already in the directroy you want to be in in the new window)
  • Execute a pwd (print working directory) on the command line.
  • Copy the directory path (don't forget, in ssh you use Ctl-Ins (the control and insert keys pressed together) to copy.
  • Move to the newly created window (which probably opened in your home directory), type cd on the command line followed by a paste (Shift-Ins) of the path you copied.