`open .` works for me too

Finder is pretty good, and it's handy to be able to open it from the terminal. But I find it super annoying it litters everything with .DS_Store files and there is no way to turn that off, except for external and network drives. Aside from, obviously, using a different file manager. Very un-Apple.

You can also `open -R file` to select that file in Finder.

you can just

    open .

unless you've reconfigured something else to open directories, which most people haven't.