Tracker and Terminal interaction

If you use frequently the Terminal and the Tracker, you will need to interact from the Terminal to the Tracker and vice versa.

I will share in this article a tip I use often, when I need to interact from the Terminal to the Tracker.

The standard interaction you might already know is to interact from Tracker to the Terminal.

In the below screenshot, open a Terminal and the tracker in the "/boot/home" directory.

Then type "cd" in the Terminal :

Now, if you drag and drop the words "/boot/home" from the tracker to the Terminal, you should see the below :

The folder path has been copied from the Tracker to the Terminal. Type enter and you can now list the directory's content with "ls" :

Another approach - instead of drag and drop - is to do a copy of the folder location from the Tracker's navigation bar (Opt+C) to the Terminal (Opt+V).

A last possibility is to drag and drop the folder icon on the top right of the "/boot/home" window to the Terminal :

Now do you know how to open a new window in the Tracker with the current path from the Terminal?

Suppose you are in the Terminal and decide to go into your "home" directory as below :

If you want to open a window from this current path in the Tracker type :

open .

As you can see, it will open a new window from the current path ! (which is "/boot/home")

The "." character represents the current path, but you can also indicate a global path like "/boot/home" or another folder like "/system".

Well done, you are know mastering the Terminal/Tracker interaction :)