How to Open a File Browser From Your Current Command Prompt/Terminal Directory in Ubuntu : Linux

Posted by Unknown Monday, January 2, 2012

How to Open a File Browser From Your Current Command Prompt/Terminal Directory in Ubuntu/Linux? For this exercise, we’re going to assume that you’re using Gnome under a Linux flavor like Ubuntu, because that’s the most common. From your terminal window, just type in the following command:

nautilus .

And the next thing you know, you’ll have a file browser window open at the current location. You’ll see some type of error message at the prompt, but you can pretty much ignore that.

You can also use “gnome-open .” if you want.

Open Finder in Mac OS X

All the Mac computers in this office are running Linux, so we haven’t had a chance to verify, but you should be able to use the following command on OS X to open Finder in the current terminal location:

open .

Open Dolphin on Linux KDE4

dolphin .

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