To open the current directory in the Finder, issue the command:

open .

Don't forget the period!

If I'm not misunderstanding, you've always been able to "open a Finder window to the current Terminal directory":

When in a terminal window, just type: "open ." to open the current directory in Finder. You can, of course, do the same with a subdirectory: "open <subdir_name>" or any file, really. Typing "open <filename>" in the Terminal is just like (or very similar to) double-clicking on the file in Finder.

The rest of the functions added look interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Hah! Snap!

Heres a more accurate description
Changing directory in the Terminal changes the front most Finder window to the same directory

This isnt just opening a Finder window to the current Terminal directory like the open command
Or opening a Terminal window to the current Finder directory like go2shell

This code can do both of these and much more

When you cd in the Terminal to change directory the front most Finder automatically changes to the same directory

Ill try and explain how this code is different from the open command,
what it does and how it works

Heres how the open command works:

With the open command you can type: open Desktop in the terminal and this will open the Desktop in a new Finder window

If you already have a Finder window open, the open command will open the Desktop in a second Finder window

When you use the open command to open a directory in the Finder from the Terminal it will always open another Finder window, it doesnt change the directory of the front most Finder window.

eg if you type:

open Desktop
open Pictures
open Sites

You would end up with 3 Finder windows

Heres what the code does instead:

When you cd into a directory in the Terminal the front Finder window changes to the same directory, if a Finder window isnt open it will open one for you

The code works with .bash_completion and some options set in .inputrc like ignore-case

For example here's how you would change the front Finder window to your Music folder in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/

cd m + tab 2 times
expands to: cd Music/

cd Music/i + tab once
expands to: cd Music/iTunes/

cd Music/iTunes/i + tab once
expands to: cd Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/

cd Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/m + tab 3 times
expands to: cd Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/

You can then type: column, list or icon to change the Finder windows view

The CDPATH variable is set in the .bash_profile to the home directory, so you can cd back to any directory in your home quickly

If you type cd d + keep pressing tab it will cycle through all the directories begining with d
For example: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Dropbox

rtfm
You need to download and install bash_completion in /etc

cd ~/M/i/i 

cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/

Not to take anything away from your code, since I can see it being useful to have a Finder window "follow" the current directory. However there's times I use the Terminal to navigate to folders with thousands of files that otherwise woule take a looong time to show in the Finder.

 alias finder='open -a Finder .'

-Mark

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With reference to the opening sentences of the hint: "There are several ways to open a Terminal window to the current directory in the Finder. But wouldn't it be useful if you could do the reverse and open a Finder window to the current Terminal directory?"

I'm sure plenty of people already know this, but for those that don't, typing:

open .

(that's "open", space, dot) and pressing return in Terminal will open the current terminal directory in Finder.

Open is a fairly advanced command, as a friend of mine put it, it is heavily modded.

It can amongst other things take a stream and open it in TextEdit, it can make the foreground window of an app come to front. It can open an app in the background, it can also open specific apps..

A read of its man page is recommended: "man open" in a Terminal window.

This brings the Finder window for CWD (current working directory) to front from the Terminal window:

open -b "com.apple.finder" .

Observe the dot at the end of the command!

Here's a simplified function that just makes cd change the directory in Finder.

function cdee() {
	[ $# == 0 ] && \cd ~ || \cd "$1"
	[ $? != 0 ] && return
	osascript -e 'on run pwd
set f to posix file pwd
tell app "Finder"
if number of Finder windows is 0 then
open f
else
set target of window 1 to f
end
end
end' "$PWD" > /dev/null
}

alias cd=cdee