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Questions about the Terminal application or its terminal emulation should use this tag. Use **command-line** for questions about shells or command-line programs that do not specifically involve Terminal.

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Use terminal to request copy of files using Finder

I can copy files using the terminal like this cp -r path/to/folder1 path/to/folder2 However, this has some limitations: Conflicts are not resolved nicely: do I want to overwrite, rename, abort? …
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Finding the icon of the default application from Terminal

Say I have some files simple_doc.txt document.pdf website.html The .txt file opens with textEdit by default, the .pdf opens with Adobe Reader and the .html file will open in Google Chrome. How can …
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