finder, a command-line tool
Today’s Ship-It Saturday is a command-line interface to the Finder.
The two most useful commands are:
- finder reveal file, which will select the file in a Finder window, and
- finder update (or updated) file, which will tell the Finder that the file has been updated.
The latter command probably is not too useful anymore, but the command-line tool should work on no less than 10.4, and could probably be recompiled for even older versions of Mac OS X, so you may still have a use for it.
January 24th, 2010 at 03:06:08
Is ‘finder reveal’ different from ‘open -R’?
January 24th, 2010 at 06:56:25
Yes, in that I knew about finder reveal. ;)
So I guess there’s pretty much no reason for finder to exist now, except as an easier way to quit and relaunch the Finder from the command line. Even so, thanks.