You can also copy any item (file or folder) in the Finder and paste it into Terminal. You’ll see the path on the command line; you can then select it with the mouse and copy it.

Mac OS X only: Freeware Mac plug-in FileUtilsCM adds a bucket of useful commands to Finder's context menu, letting you do things like: refresh the look of an object in Finder, copy [a file's] path ...

Copying and pasting text, images, GIFs, and other file formats on a Mac can be done in a variety of ways.

The way Macs do it may seem off to newer users, but OS X does allow both copy/paste, and cut/paste actions for files. The second is quicker and less-known—by using the mouse and the Option key ...