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Aldrin Jenson

Drag and drop files from the macOS terminal

Use this cool tool:

https://github.com/Wevah/dragterm

Steps to install:

  1. git clone the above repo
  2. cd dragterm
  3. brew install cocoapods
  4. g++ DTDraggingSourceView.m main.m -framework Cocoa -o drag
  5. Add the folder to PATH

export PATH="<your drag term folder path>:$PATH"

Usage:

drag <filename>

Bonus

If you are using ranger or some other CLI based file manager, you can easily add support to dragging from terminal using dragterm with a key-map as follows:

map <C-d> shell drag %p

Paste the above to .config/ranger/rc.conf to map ctrl+d to drag a file from ranger

20-03-2024
/til/adding-drag-drop-from-terminal-in-mac-os/ Aldrin Jenson