LKBEN11600: How can I launch finder from a terminal in macOS?
Symptom
You would like to start finder from the shell.
Cause
This is by design.
Solution
To open a location in finder on your mac from the terminal (e.g. iTerm) you can use the open command. This command will open the current directory in finder.
open .
And this command will open your Applications.
open /Applications
Have fun.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 17.03.2023