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