OSC 7 — Current Working Directory

Sequence	OSC 7 ; file://<host>/<path> ST
Otty support	✓

Description

Reports the pane's current working directory. The terminal stores it per-pane and uses it for:

• Resolving relative paths in Files and Links.
• The cwd anchor of newly-spawned panes (split / new tab via shortcut).
• The cwd shown in the Window, Tab and Split commands menu.

The payload is a file:// URI. The <host> part should be the machine hostname; over SSH it lets the terminal differentiate local vs remote paths. <path> must be percent-encoded.

Example

# emitted by the shell at each prompt
printf '\e]7;file://%s%s\e\\' "$HOSTNAME" "$(pwd | sed 's| |%20|g')"

# zsh precmd snippet (Otty's shell integration installs this for you):
precmd() { print -Pn "\e]7;file://%m%d\e\\"; }

Try it

otty features try osc7 — emits the OSC 7 sequence for the current directory once. Subsequent new tabs / splits inherit it.

Related

• Shell Integration — installs OSC 7 emission automatically.
• OSC 133 — prompt marks, the other half of integration.