Timeline for How do I launch Finder from terminal or command line
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| Mar 4, 2023 at 2:22 | comment | added | Noumenon |
If the window doesn't pop up, check the Terminal menu to see if Secure Keyboard Entry is checked. This makes Terminal stay in the foreground. discussions.apple.com/thread/253635465 If you can't uncheck it, try a different terminal emulator.
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| Jul 18, 2020 at 20:27 | comment | added | Raine Revere |
Related: You can switch to the existing Finder window using open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
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| Sep 26, 2019 at 18:09 | comment | added | Aaron Franke |
What if I want to open Finder and connect to a server? open ftp://whatever doesn't recognize the protocol, instead it tries to look for a file called whatever in a folder called ftp:.
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| Jun 23, 2016 at 2:56 | comment | added | computingfreak |
open `pwd` is safer, does the same thing as open .
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:19 | comment | added | AmadeusDrZaius |
@Segfault To force it to open an application as a file in Finder, rather than the open the application itself, use the -R option: "-R Reveals the file(s) in the Finder instead of opening them." For example, you can do cd /Applications/Preview.app; open -R . and it will open Finder, not Preview.
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 14:12 | comment | added | razzed |
Important note, which was helpful to me - if you've Force Quitted the Finder and it doesn't relaunch and you happen to have a Terminal window open, you can relaunch the finder by simply opening a directory, like open . as indicated here.
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 20:53 | comment | added | Segfault | This doesn't work if your current directory is an application, like /Applications/Something.app. It will open that app instead of finder. | |
| Mar 8, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Chris Ballance | I've been wondering for some time what the Mac equivalent to "explorer ." was. Thanks! | |
| Sep 11, 2013 at 1:40 | comment | added | bmike♦ | you did fine - linking the dupes helps with search terms. Your answer or this questions' words get indexed so that people searching the internet find the right answer. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 22:33 | comment | added | bmike♦ |
Boom! open . is the winner here.
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| Sep 10, 2013 at 22:17 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |