Accessing iCloud Drive via Terminal.app

September 28, 2016
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macOS Sierra > introduced iCloud Drive > as a deep part of the operating system.

It’s easy enough to see in Finder, but I had trouble finding it at the command line. So I went hunting and found out that iCloud files are stored under ~/Library/Mobile Documents at the full path of:

~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

Hope this saves you some time!

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