![]() You can confirm this by typing ‘ls’ and listing the contents of the iCloud Drive folder, or by typing ‘pwd’ to print the working directory. Hit the Return key and you’ll be in the iCloud Drive folder. Thus the full command to access iCloud Drive via terminal would be as follows:Ĭd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ To access iCloud Drive in the Terminal of Mac OS, simply use the familiar “cd” command and specify the directory of the iCloud documents path we detailed above. How to Access iCloud Drive from the Command Line in Mac OS ![]() Note: You must have an active internet connection to access iCloud Drive and iCloud Drive files and documents. Home/USERNAME/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ Remember, the “~” tilde is a shortcut for the current users home directory, but you can also choose to annunciate the entire path for a specific user folder if desired like so: ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ The command line path to iCloud Drive in Mac OS is as follows: The iCloud Drive Path for Terminal in Mac OS Without those prerequisites you would not be able to access iCloud Drive from the command line, let alone the Finder. This should go without saying, but you’ll obviously need iCloud Drive to be enabled on the Mac, and have an active internet connection. ![]() We’ll show you the full path for iCloud Drive access from the command line in Mac OS, and show you how to quickly and easily get to iCloud folders and files from the Terminal.
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