{"id":1222,"date":"2021-06-15T14:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:46:27","slug":"a-quick-and-easy-way-to-find-a-files-path-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-find-a-files-path-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick and Easy Way to find a File&#8217;s path (on Mac)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Open terminal. My preferred way is to use the Spotlight Search. Command + Spacebar brings up spotlight search. Then type in &#8220;terminal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-1024x140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-1024x140.png 1024w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-768x105.png 768w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-648x89.png 648w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm-583x80.png 583w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.04.59-pm.png 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>(A screenshot of the Spotlight Search bar pulling up Terminal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Open terminal. Then drag the file you wish to know the path of into the terminal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-1024x412.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-1024x412.png 1024w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-768x309.png 768w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-648x261.png 648w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-477x192.png 477w, https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png 1142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>(A screenshot of the terminal after I have dragged and dropped a file into it)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your terminal should look something like the screenshot above. the path beings after the user is specified (~User&#8217;sNameIsHere$). For example, the path is \/Users\/User&#8217;sNameIsHere\/Documents\/01\\ Drawings\/0\\ show\\ off\/cat01.jpg in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open terminal. My preferred way is to use the Spotlight Search. Command + Spacebar brings up spotlight search. Then type in &#8220;terminal&#8221;. Open terminal. Then drag the file you wish to know the path of into the terminal. Your terminal should look something like the screenshot above. the path beings after the user is specified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-find-a-files-path-on-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quick and Easy Way to find a File&#8217;s path (on Mac)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-300x121.png",300,121,true],"large":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-1024x412.png",648,261,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"edin-thumbnail-landscape":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-330x240.png",330,240,true],"edin-thumbnail-square":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-330x330.png",330,330,true],"edin-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-96x96.png",96,96,true],"edin-featured-image":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-648x261.png",648,261,true],"edin-hero":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm.png",1142,460,false],"edin-logo":["https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-2.07.00-pm-477x192.png",477,192,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"stonean","author_link":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/author\/stonean\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/category\/tech-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Tech Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Open terminal. My preferred way is to use the Spotlight Search. Command + Spacebar brings up spotlight search. Then type in &#8220;terminal&#8221;. Open terminal. Then drag the file you wish to know the path of into the terminal. Your terminal should look something like the screenshot above. the path beings after the user is specified&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commlabs.simmons.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}