tmux/Pane/Q/What's the easiest way to get the CWD of a pane?

• What's the easiest way to get the CWD of a tmux/Pane?

  • AI Answer

    • Short answer: run tmux display-message -p '#{pane_current_path}' from inside the pane.
    • sh

      tmux display-message -p '#{pane_current_path}'

    • To check a pane other than the active one, add -t with a window.pane target:
      • sh

        tmux display-message -p -t 1.2 '#{pane_current_path}'

    • -p prints the formatted message to stdout instead of the status line, and #{pane_current_path} is the format variable holding the pane's current working directory — so this works from a script or from another pane, not only from inside the target pane itself.

    • Sources

      • tmux(1) man page — display-message, FORMATS