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Mac – open Finder from terminal – quick tip

By admin on Dec 11, 2015

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 .

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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

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