finder

What it does

finder is a command-line interface to some of the Finder's most useful functions. (Note that when I say finder, I mean my command-line tool, and when I say Finder, I mean Apple's app.)

Each of the Finder's functions is represented by a subcommand:

update

Tells the Finder to update its information about zero or more files or folders in any relevant Finder windows.

reveal

Show each named file in a Finder window.

open

Open each file as if it were double-clicked (like open(1)).

start

Launch the Finder if it isn't already running.

stop

Quit the Finder.

In addition, finder recognizes two synonyms (updated for update and launch for open), and it prints usage when you type finder or finder help.

Downloads

finder-CLI-1.0.zip

An Installer package, in a zip archive. Installs to /usr/local/bin.
MD5 hash: 9f9adef90e3b87e169169683d079091e
SHA-1 hash: 3857e25df9fb01ba3e41da29ebc1449346849c80

finder-CLI-1.0-source.tbz

Objective-C source code and an Xcode 2.4 project, in a bzip2-compressed tarball.
MD5 hash: 953fa562a632880cbfae13c18f01a985
SHA-1 hash: a065110876a3aaa6d2da4ca0cc96f252c93581da

MD5 and SHA1 signatures were created using EasyHash.

2010-01-23 http://boredzo.org/finder