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Cool Mac Terminal trick

If you’re like me and open Terminal.app quickly under Mac OS X to do something, but then want to open your working directory in the Finder (perhaps to drag something to another location or just see the current directory graphically), I found a really neat trick.

The simple command:

open .

Will open the current directory in the Finder. Very useful for me anyway.

This post was written by Peter on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 18:40. Filed under Completely Random, Mac.

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