A Quick and Easy Way to find a File’s path (on Mac)

Posted on by stonean

Open terminal. My preferred way is to use the Spotlight Search. Command + Spacebar brings up spotlight search. Then type in “terminal”.

(A screenshot of the Spotlight Search bar pulling up Terminal)

Open terminal. Then drag the file you wish to know the path of into the terminal.

(A screenshot of the terminal after I have dragged and dropped a file into it)

Your terminal should look something like the screenshot above. the path beings after the user is specified (~User’sNameIsHere$). For example, the path is /Users/User’sNameIsHere/Documents/01\ Drawings/0\ show\ off/cat01.jpg in this case.

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