[OS X TeX] mkdir and finder

[David Arnold]

All,

Bingo!

open dirname

works!


On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2005, at 09:47, David Arnold wrote:
>
>> In transporting some tex files from our server to my mac, I did a 
>> mkdir in the Terminal before downloading. Afterwards, the directory I 
>> made with mkdir was not visible in the Finder.
>>
>> Can someone tell me how to make it visible in the Finder? (My clunky 
>> solution was to start over, make the folder in the Finder, then 
>> download my files. Yuk! Duplicate time.)
>
> If it really exists, you can avoid the Finder's update delay (bug) by 
> using `open dirname` in the Terminal, where dirname is the directory 
> you created.  I use this all the time to open hidden folders.  
> Force-quitting the Finder is another brute force method of getting it 
> to see newly created files/folders.
>
> -- 
> Adam
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