It's also possible to launch the executable directly by typing this
is a terminal window:
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
For applications that want to talk back to you by printing info in
the shell window, this can be very useful. To avoid having to type &
retype those long commands each time, you can save them in an
"aliases" file using syntax like this:
alias safari 'open -a Safari'
or
alias safari '/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari'
Scott
On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>> How do I execute a Mac application from the Terminal command line?
>
> For most apps, simply type 'open <name of app>', including any
> necessary pathing. Keep in mind that Cocoa apps are actually bundles,
> which means that the file name usually has .app at the end. For
> example, to open Safari from the Terminal, type: open /Applications/
> Safari.app/
>
>> Specifically, I'm trying to specify BBEdit in the EDITOR environment
>> variable which is consulted by IPython. EDITOR= what? Not /
>> Applications/BBEdit, or /Applications/BBEdit.app. Probably something
>> that continues with /Contents/ . . . but then I get lost. And I don't
>> quite know how to experiment because I'm not sure how to attempt to
>> run it from the bash prompt . . .
>
> This is even easier! BBEdit has a command-line tool that you can
> install from the 'Tools' section of the preferences. The tool's name
> is 'bbedit' (lower case), so from the Terminal you can simply type
> 'bbedit myfile', and 'myfile' will be opened up in BBEdit. For your
> environmental variable, just set: EDITOR=bbedit
>
> -- Ed Leafe
> -- http://leafe.com
> -- http://dabodev.com
>
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