bash_profile alias -- Open Coda with PWD

Question

I am working on creating a bash alias so I can just cd to a given directory and run a command which opens the pwd. My script works great, but when I grab ${pwd} it grabs the pwd of the bash_profile file. How do I get it to grab the pwd of the calling terminal window?

alias opencoda="osascript -e 'tell application \"Coda\"' -e 'tell document 1' -e 'change local path \"${pwd}\"' -e 'end tell' -e 'end tell'"

SOLUTION I'm not sure really why the above gives the bash_profile dir and this one the terminal dir, but nonetheless:

alias opencoda='osascript -e "tell application \"Coda\"" -e "tell document 1" -e "change local path \"${PWD}\"" -e "end tell" -e "end tell"'

I had to change the quotes around.. also apparently needed to keep double quotes inside there.

Another fun Coda bash script I just wrote:

Open a given file from the current directory:

function coda() {  osascript -e "tell application \"Coda\"" -e "tell document 1" -e "open \"${PWD}/$@\"" -e "end tell" -e "end tell";}

Ex) coda myfile.txt

Answer 1

I'm not really sure what that is doing so this is a fairly wild guess, but i would try escaping the $ in the variable \${pwd}. Then on the first parse by .bash_profile is will evaluate it to ${pwd} which should then pass the correct variable.

Answer 2

When you reference a variable inside a double-quoted string, Bash substitutes the value of the variable right then and there. All you need to do is escape the $, so that the substitution doesn't take place. That way, when you run opencoda, Bash will see the variable reference $PWD in the command and will do the substitution at that time.

alias opencoda="... \${PWD} ..."

(Incidentally, on my computer only $PWD [capitalized] works.)