# LibTmux.SplitPaneRequest.StartDirectory

- **Module:** LibTmux.SplitPaneRequest
- **Package:** LibTmux
- **Language:** .NET
- **Kind:** property
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-dotnet/blob/320dc64f4b8b7815842471327a5e6b84a1499bf8/src/LibTmux/Requests/SplitPaneRequest.cs#L26
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/dotnet/latest/reference/libtmux-splitpanerequest-startdirectory/

Gets the working directory for the new pane.

tmux expands it as a format before it changes directory, so a <c>#</c>
in it does not survive verbatim.