others-how to open file with specified app in command line on mac osx system ?
1. Purpose
In this post, I demonstrated how to . That’s it, thanks for your reading.
2. Solution
If we want to open 2022.md with sublime text application, we can do this:
open -a "sublime text" 2022.md
or you can create an alias for above command as follows:
alias mdopen='open -a "sublime text"
then just use the shortcut command:
mdopen 2022.md
3. The theory
Let’s see the options that provided with open command:
Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-R] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-s
][-b ] [-a ] [filenames] [--args arguments]
Help: Open opens files from a shell.
By default, opens each file using the default application for that file.
If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a URL.
Options:
-a Opens with the specified application.