I don’t like typing “nautilus” to open the folder explorer from the terminal. Mac’s “open” command is shorter and makes sense to me. To get the same command in Ubuntu, we just have to add it to bash aliases.

Open up ~/.bash_aliases to be edited. I usually use nano. ``` nano ~/.bash_aliases ```

Add this line ``` alias open="nautilus" ```

When using the terminal, to open nautilus in the current folder, you can run this command ``` open . & ``` The ”&” detaches the process from the terminal and is optional.