{"id":42052,"date":"2018-11-28T03:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=42052"},"modified":"2018-11-27T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T10:56:15","slug":"mac-os-x-finder-drag-to-terminal-command-line-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-os-x-finder-drag-to-terminal-command-line-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X Finder Drag to Terminal Command Line Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mac OS X Finder Drag to Terminal Command Line Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s blog posting titular (and main) message is really a tip to those Mac OS X users that enjoy command line work, via the Terminal (desktop) application. Do you waste a fair bit of time using the cd<\/a> command to navigate your way to various software projects, or the like? Around here, we tend to use Mac OS X Terminal command line a lot, but get around too much use of cd<\/a> by letting (the fragrant aroma and sea breezes of) MAMP<\/a> local Apache\/PHP\/MySql web server (wash over the very essence of our being). Even delving into the woooooorrrrrllllldddds of node.js<\/a> or MeteorJS<\/a> or Backbone.js or AngularJS or ReactJS our first instinct would be to work off MAMP’s \/Application\/MAMP\/htdocs\/ (document root) because we sort of “live MAMP” and “hang about with MAMP” (you had to be there<\/font>), and so, find things later, to remember, as a result, and also, we baulk from those great long cd<\/i> commands, as we are here today to outline another approach to all this.<\/p>\n

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  1. Half fill your Mac OS X screen with a Terminal session, perhaps at the left.<\/li>\n
  2. Fill the other right half with a Mac OS X Finder window.<\/li>\n
  3. Try typing a blank character appended to cd<\/i> on the Terminal session … ie. “cd “<\/li>\n
  4. In the Finder session, drag a folder over to the Terminal session to the right of the “cd ” typing, and drop.<\/li>\n
  5. In the Terminal session complete the command via an Enter key press.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Get it?! Cute, huh?! Okay, that’s the end of today’s blog posting’s main thought.<\/p>\n

    If you are not interested in the “Making Of …” thoughts you are excused now.<\/p>\n

    We were wondering how to present this concept. At first we thought a single image. No, it needs an action, and consequence, to be apt with today’s subject matter (ie. to segment the single image could be done, but would not simulate the “drag and drop” action feeling). What about a PDF Slideshow? That’s good for covering the action, and consequence, but not for setting it off without user intervention, which may never happen. So, in that case, what about an Animated GIF, homegrown (ie. where size can be bigger than with the redoubtable Gifpal<\/a> animated GIF creator, for millions)? Yes, more the go, we think. And that got us back into the woooooorrrrrrlllllddd of Animated GIF and Video via PHP Writing PHP Data URI Tutorial<\/a> and all its presentation styles, which we wanted to show you.<\/p>\n