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Open Finder from the Terminal

December 15th, 2009 - Command Line, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks

You can immediately access the present working directory in the Finder by typing the following command in the Terminal:

open .

If you have just launched Terminal, typing this in the command line will immediately open your home directory, but you can be anywhere and it works the same. You can also specify directories to open from the terminal into the Finder, like so:

open /Applications/Utilities/

This opens your utilities app folder. Try it with just about anything.

Note: Oops looks like David covered this a month ago: Open Current Folder in Finder from the Terminal, Thanks for pointing this out Carl!

Posted by: Bill Ellis

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Comments: 5

Comment from Bruce
Time: December 15, 2009, 11:26 am

Is there a way to make it so that we can run this via a shortcut? That would be super helpful.

Comment from Chromeo
Time: December 15, 2009, 2:47 pm

bruce, shortcut to what? open is pretty short?

Comment from Carl
Time: December 15, 2009, 2:52 pm

Humm…. is it november 30th all over again? I didn’t think you would recycle hints on such a short time frame. :P

Comment from Bill Ellis
Time: December 15, 2009, 5:35 pm

@Carl, oops! Thanks for pointing this out!

Comment from Bruce
Time: December 16, 2009, 3:04 pm

@Chromeo I’m saying like a Command + F to open the finder (most likely not that exact shortcut but something similar).

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December 15th, 2009