Opening a tab or pane in the same directory in Windows Terminal

[Deetss]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

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The tutorial here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory specifically for the WSL bash setup doesn't allow you to duplicate the terminal window in the CWD. I've tried a few things. Adding this to the .bash_profile PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+"$PROMPT_COMMAND; "}'printf "\e]9;9;%s\e\\" "$(wslpath -w "$PWD")"'

The only thing I get is a colorless prompt which is not in the directory being duplicated. If I add this to the bottom of my .bash_rc I get no change to the behavior of bash. Any updates or changes would be greatly appreciated!

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/blob/main/TerminalDocs/tutorials/new-tab-same-directory.md

Author

@zadjii-msft

Document Id

439baddf-3ec9-a46e-1b6e-3ec47cbd1d4c

[tsubik]

I had the same problem, both with zsh or bash, to not open duplicated tab in the same directory. Turns out I was using default Ubuntu profile that was created that starts with Ubuntu.exe. Changing command line in Settings to %SystemRoot%\System32\wsl.exe -d Ubuntu helped. I think docs are missing that crucial information.