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Re:The new MacBook by nmridul on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:02PM (#9174688)
I wish I was able to right click a folder and get an option "open terminal here" and then terminal opens and directory changes to the current selected folder. Is this available currently that I'm not aware of ? Else, make it easy to copy the path.... Just like the windows explorer does.
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Re:The new MacBook by _puk on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:51PM (#9174942)
I use this feature a lot..

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Enable New Terminal at Folder [0]

Not sure if this works in Yosemite.. 10.8.5 works fine for me currently, so not risked / bothered upgrading.

0: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here...

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Re:The new MacBook by kalleboo on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:50PM (#9175911)
Yes this still works in Yosemite
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Re:The new MacBook by etrautmann on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:03PM (#9174997)
your comment highlights that we all perceive "risk" now to upgrading. I used to not worry about this, but it seems that new OS X releases are broken enough to warrant not upgrading
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Re:The new MacBook by Anechoic on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:06PM (#9174721)
Else, make it easy to copy the path

You can drag the file or folder (from the title bar or file list) icon icon into a terminal window and the path of that file/folder will be written to the command line. Not quite the same, but very useful (and a feature I often miss in Windows).

edit: I was mistaken about dragging files/folders into the Windows CLI, I was thinking about something else.

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Re:The new MacBook by timepiece on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:23PM (#9174807)
What do you mean it's missed in Win?

I'm a DOS guy not even PowerShell and I usually drag the folders icons to the CLI to browse directly to the location and complete the operation from the terminal ...

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Re:The new MacBook by Anechoic on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:51PM (#9175214)
Apologies, you're correct. What I was thinking about was dragging folders and files into Open/Save dialogs.
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Re:The new MacBook by forgery-- on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:27PM (#9175640)
You might check out GoToShell: http://zipzapmac.com/Go2Shell
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