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Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Re: Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Post by oinksoft »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

Neat idea, but: mv .bash_profile ~/.bash_profile No thanks, I have my own things in there.

I too am confused as to why the author has chosen to include their entire Bash configuration in this repository. As far as I can tell, this is the only interesting file:

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/bashfinder/blob/master/.ba...

So you'd just want to rename this to something obvious like "osx-finder.bash" and source that file.

Re: Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Post by msarnoff »

On a similar note, if you just want to open a new Finder window to the current working directory (instead of using an existing Finder window), just use

  open .
The 'open' command has tons of uses (open a file with a specific application, reveal a file in Finder, open a URL in the user's browser, etc.) and I recommend reading its man page.

Re: Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Post by brightghost »

oinksoft wrote: post #3
pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

Neat idea, but: mv .bash_profile ~/.bash_profile No thanks, I have my own things in there.

I too am confused as to why the author has chosen to include their entire Bash configuration in this repository. As far as I can tell, this is the only interesting file: https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/bashfinder/blob/master/.ba... So you'd just want to rename this to something obvious like "osx-finder.bash" and source that file.

I also wasted a fair amount of time looking through these files, trying to figure out what all the miscellaneous bash configs had to do with the stated purpose. I did find that there is a nice undocumented feature of the cdff command, which allows you to specify the directory of a window lower in the stack by sending a numeral as the positional parameter.

Re: Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Post by [deleted] »

msarnoff wrote: post #4

On a similar note, if you just want to open a new Finder window to the current working directory (instead of using an existing Finder window), just use open . The 'open' command has tons of uses (open a file with a specific application, reveal a file in Finder, open a URL in the user's browser, etc.) and I recommend reading its man page.

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Re: Bash Finder: Control the Finder from the Terminal

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Post by jlgreco »

msarnoff wrote: post #4

On a similar note, if you just want to open a new Finder window to the current working directory (instead of using an existing Finder window), just use open . The 'open' command has tons of uses (open a file with a specific application, reveal a file in Finder, open a URL in the user's browser, etc.) and I recommend reading its man page.

For linux users: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open
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