Installed mitmproxy OSX but cannot locate .mitproxy directory

Question

I was able to successfully install mitproxy (confirmed by doing a 'pip list') but when I try to install the mitmproxy certificate authority in the IOS simulator using the command:

./iosCertTrustManager.py -a ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem

I get an no such file or directory error for .mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem. I tried to just find the directory by doing

cd ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem

and even

cd ~/.mitmproxy 

but again I get no such file or directory.

It's possible I am making a very simple mistake (I am a bit of a newbie) but I don't understand why I can't find the directory if the installation was successful.

Answer 1

If I move my ~/.mitmproxy directory out of the way, then run mitmproxy at the command line and quit it, the directory is created with default files. So, you can create it by running mitmproxy and exiting right away.