Add Open Finder.app To Specific Directory as a Mac til

Author: jbranchaud

README.md

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mac/open-finder-app-to-specific-directory.md

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+# Open Finder.app To Specific Directory
+
+The Mac OSX built-in GUI for navigating directories and files is _Finder.app_.
+I use it just about anytime I need to drag a file on my machine into Slack,
+Discord, Google Drive, or wherever else has a file drop zone.
+
+Sometimes certain directories can be hard to navigate to because they are
+deeply nested or because Mac hides them by default. The `~/Library` directory
+is a great example of the latter.
+
+I can use the `open` command from the terminal to open a Finder window right in
+that directory.
+
+```bash
+$ cd ~/Library
+$ open .
+```
+
+I first navigated there and then I ran `open .` which means open the current
+directory. For directories, `open` defaults to using Finder.app.
+
+I could have also run `open` with the target directory name instead of
+navigating there first.
+
+```bash
+$ open ~/Library
+```
+
+See `man open` for more details.