Go to your hard drive -> user name -> Library -> Services -> and there you will see the Services Automator scripts. First time to show the files and second time to hide them. OR click the desktop and go to in the top menu: Finder -> Services -> name of file to show hidden files. To hide the files use the same shortcut again. To show hidden files use the shortcut: shift+cmd+. If there is not shortcut there then add shift+cmd+. There might be a shortcut there if so test it out. Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services and find the Services you made showing hidden files. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

Select Utilities -> Run Shell Script (drag it into the window on the right)Īdd the following code to show hidden files status=`defaults read AppleShowAllFiles`ĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles falseĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles true How would you use mput to FTP files from the Mac Terminal Just a quick background before we start this discussion: mput is a command used to move multiple files through FTP. After we had FTP’d to our site, we had tried running this command.

I came across another solution by using Automator. We were playing around with the Terminal on the Mac to FTP some things over to an FTP site.

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