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Jeff Johnson

lapcatsoftware.com

The résumé of Jeff Johnson, professional Mac and iOS developer.

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Undocumented Catalina file access change

It's well known that if you drag a file from Finder and drop it into Terminal, the full path of the file will output in Terminal. The same behavior occurs with copy and paste too. This has always been a very convenient but innocuous operation… until macOS 10.15 Catalina. I've discovered that on Catalina, pasting a…