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July 08, 2006

GUI features even work in the terminal


If you are new to the command line interface (the Terminal) in OS X, you may find it tedious to type out full path names to files or folders. If you are working in the terminal, and need to add a folder path, just open up a finder window and drag and drop the folder into the terminal window and presto, the full path is added to your command. This works with network folders as well. As you can see in the photo, I typed the copy command and then dragged in a video and a network folder to copy the video to to my testing server. Of course this is not the easiest or best way to move the file, but it is a great way for those new to the terminal to learn the syntax for various commands. Of course, you don't get all that good typing practice.

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