Mac – open Finder from terminal – quick tip

Often we want to open Finder window when we are working on Terminal. Here are few scenarios to open Finder window from command line terminal on Mac.

Terminal – Open current dir in Finder

$ open .

Terminal – Open home dir in Finder

We can use tilde (~) to open current user home dir

$ open ~

Terminal – Open any directory in Finder

This can open system directories also which are hidden in Finder otherwise.

$ open ~/Library/
$ open /tmp