There are about a bazillion utilities that come from the UNIX base on which OSX sits that are all command line accessible. You can do a lot of stuff with htese tools which have been around for an eternity so are well tried and true.
cdh On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:38 AM, .dan. wrote: > > I'm very interested to do many things from the commandline in terminal. > From time to time we hear of some application that comes with a commandline > interface along with the gui. Vlc is a current example. At the > commandline one would type: > > vlc filename > > to play the named file. > > Are there others known to users? > > I know regular mac applications can be started from the command line, or a > second example if one is already active. > > Does anyone know how one might point to a file to act upon at startup like > in the vlc example? > > For example: > > safari urlname > > Would start safari and go to the named url. > > > XB > IC|XC > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
