Ever been doing some work at the command line when you realized… it would be much easier if I could just use the mouse to the task? A command later, you’ll have a window open at the place where you are.

This trick works well in more than one operating system, so we’ll detail how to do it in every way we know how.

Open a file browser in Windows

We actually covered this before when we told you how to open an explorer window command prompt in the current directory, but we will briefly review: Simply type the following command in your command prompt:

explorer .

Note: You can actually just type “Start”. Place.

And you will see a file browser window put in the same directory as your previous to. And yes, this screenshot is from Vista, but it works the same in every version of Windows.

If it was not good enough, you should really read how you can navigate through dialogs Open File Save / with just the keyboard, this is a Stupid Geek Trick!

Open a file browser for Linux

For this exercise we’ll assume that you are using Gnome under Linux flavor like Ubuntu, because it is the most common. From your terminal window, just type the following command:

Nautilus.

And the next thing you know, you’ll have a file browser window open at the current location. You’ll see some type of error message at the prompt, but you can pretty much ignore that.

You can also use “gnome-open .” if you want.

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