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Secrets of the proxy icon in a program's title bar
Authored by: CVBruce on Mar 16, '10 08:32:02AM

One use I've found for the proxy icon (I didn't know that was its name), is with Finder and Terminal.

Let's say that you have used Finder to navigate to a folder that is buried somewhere, and you want to open a terminal window in the directory.

Open a terminal window, at the command prompt type 'cd', now drag the proxy icon from Finder window and drop it on the terminal window, and hit return. The path is inserted into the terminal window at the current cursor position, with white space properly escaped and forward slash characters in file names (/) converted to colons (:).

There are lots of places in the command line world that using the proxy icon to grab the absolute path of a file system object saves a lot of typing, and in my case a lot of re-typing due to typos.



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Secrets of the proxy icon in a program's title bar
Authored by: mankoff on Mar 16, '10 02:38:01PM
You might appreciate having the "OpenHere.app" in the top bar of your Terminal in this case. Makes opening terminal windows much easier than even the process you described.

http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/
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