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11 Responses to “Open a folder in the Finder from the Terminal”

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   August Lilleaas Says

   Nice one. Having searched for a while, only finding “how to open a terminal window from the finder”. I’d expect it to be “finder .”, but I guess I can not always have my way.

   Dec 22nd, 2006 at 6:18 pm   

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   Thiago Says

   Very simple but great tip! Made my life easier =P

   Thanks a lot!

   May 29th, 2009 at 8:45 pm   

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   Ankit Says

   Thanks dude… I was searching for it from quiet some time.

   Jun 8th, 2009 at 8:53 am   

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   Cainofnod Says

   You sure can have it your way:

   alias finder=’open’

   Jul 4th, 2009 at 7:31 pm   

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   esaruoho Says

   thanks Cainofnod!! exactly what i needed

   Aug 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm   

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   Allan Says

   Brilliant trick!

   Sep 6th, 2009 at 12:04 am   

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   yaauie Says

   @Cainofnod, @esaruocho:

   I’d highly suggest against aliasing finder to the open binary. Open is a very flexible general-use bin that does a whole lot more than just open directories in the Finder. It’ll take any file or directory and open it with the default helper, or if provided an -a arg, in the Application supplied. Aliasing it for such a specific use will lead to confusion (man finder will turn up nothing).

   Sep 14th, 2009 at 3:59 am   

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   Don Smith Says

   The first hit in the search engine and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for posting!

   Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:13 pm   

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   David Kanenwisher Says

   Thanks a lot for posting this. I knew there had to be an easy way to do it.

   Nov 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm   

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