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Open a folder in the Finder from the Terminal

November 1st, 2003 by Marcos

Here’s a simple but nifty trick. Say you’re navigating around in the Terminal and you would like to see the present working directory in the Finder? Just type

% open .

and the Finder will open up the folder you’re in. This works in both xterms and the Apple Terminal.

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1 Response 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.

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