Open in Terminal from SFTP

While browsing a host's files, open a terminal on the same host that starts in the folder you're looking at, without typing cd and the path.

How to use it

In the SFTP file browser:

• right-click a folder → Open in Terminal to start in that folder;
• right-click a file → Open in Terminal to start in the folder that contains it;
• right-click empty space → Open in Terminal to start in the folder you're browsing.

With several items selected, the item is disabled, because there's no single folder to start in.

A new terminal tab opens to the same host, with the same credentials and jump chain, and starts in that folder.

Limits

• Windows hosts — the item is disabled, and its hint says Windows host. A Windows OpenSSH server runs cmd or PowerShell, which can't take the start-in-folder command. A host's OS is detected the first time you open a terminal to it, so before that it's treated as Linux or Unix.
• If the terminal can't be opened, you see Could not open a terminal for this folder.

Tips

• To go the other way, from a terminal to its files, use Explore SFTP on the host's menu.
• Use Split panes to keep a terminal next to another one on the same host.