10.4: Quickly paste object paths in the Terminal

May 11, '05 10:13:00AM

Contributed by: robg

Tiger only hintIf you copy a file or folder in the Finder, and then paste it into the Terminal, the full path to that item is pasted. So you can now get items' paths without resorting to a drag and drop. Just copy in the Finder, switch to the Terminal, and paste.

This hint was emailed to me by macosxhints' reader "Cap'n Hector."

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