At times when you may be working on the Mac Terminal App and want to see what's in a directory by opening it in Finder App. Well, there is a command for it and the name is quite trivial - open
Demo![Open Current location in Finder using Terminal Command Open Current location in Finder using Terminal Command](https://code2care.org/macos/open-current-working-diretory-in-finder-using-mac-terminal/images/Open Current location in Finder using Terminal Command.gif)
As you can see in the above GIF demo, open . opens the current working directory (pwd) in Finder App.
You may also use the open command followed by a path to open directories, files, or Applications as well.
Example:
% open /User/c2c/Desktop/myFiles
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