Teaching an old dog new tricks

[Yesurbius]

It never ceases to amaze me at how you think you know quite a bit, then one day you find something that you never knew existed.

I always wanted a way to launch apps from Terminal. I couldn't find a command that would automatically launch an App.. I'd resort to running the executable:

$ /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

Whilst reading a Cocoa tutorial today I see the 'open' command. So I drop to Terminal and do a 'man open' and became totally amazed

$ open -a TextEdit

Absolutely amazing. I wonder what else I don't know yet

 

[Flying Meat]

Hahhah!
You are not alone.

 

[nixgeek]

Yeah. This is a holdover from NeXTSTEP. I read it in the man page for it. Very cool.