Using bash to navigate to a file in Finder

Question

I drag a lot of graphic files from Finder directly into InDesign and Photoshop. I use a vey simple bash script to quickly open the directory containing the file.

cd "/Volumes/Server/Resources/stock1/"

open .

The script opens the correct directory, but I would like to know how to get it to also go to a specified file (e.g., image.eps) and highlight/select it. The directories I work with contain hundreds of files and have hard-to-look-through names. This would be a huge time-saver.

Thanks so much for any help. I'm using Mac OSX 10.9.5.

Answer 1

Use the -R (aka --reveal) option to select a single file:

open -R "/Volumes/Server/Resources/stock1/image.eps"

Something like,

open -R "/Volumes/Server/Resources/stock1/"*.eps

will not select all eps files in the folder, but instead will select each one successively, so that the end result is only the last file is selected.