Open File Browser from Terminal Window in Ubuntu

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 29, 2009 - 11:30am

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nautilus foldername

or for the current folder:

nautilus .

To go the other way, File browser to terminal, you need to install:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

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Submitted by chim (not verified) on December 9, 2011 - 6:13am.

awesome, thanks

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