cds(7)

NAME
cds - change the terminal pwd to match that of the frontmost Safari window

SYNOPSIS
cds

DESCRIPTION
cds, when issued from the command prompt in Terminal, iTerm, or xterm, will cd into the directory corresponding to the web page displayed in Safari. The purpose of this is so that if you own the web page displayed in Safari having the url http://www.myplace.org/foo/index.html and the file index.html resides in (for example) ~/Sites/foo, typing the command cds results in the command cd ~/Sites/foo being issued. For this to work, you must have exported the environment variables PUBLIC_HTML and MY_DOMAIN from your .zshrc file or equivalent. For the above example, you would want the lines export PUBLIC_HTML="/Users/$USER/Sites" and export MY_DOMAIN="myplace.org" in your .zshrc file. (If you put in www.myplace.org, that will work too, but if you use simply myplace.org, BOTH www.myplace.org and myplace.org will be recognized in your browser. If these are not matched by what is displayed in the browser, a message is returned that states that the name does not appear to be part of the file system. The function is a zsh shell script that invokes an osascript that invokes a javascript to communicate with Safari.

ENVIRONMENT
The environment variables PUBLIC_HTML and MY_DOMAIN must be exported as described above.

AUTHOR
 William Scott

SEE ALSO
spath(7), eds(7)