launching an OSX bundle

Jim Sims sims at ezpzapps.com
Tue Jul 29 00:58:18 EDT 2008


On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:49 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> launch -a <app name>
>
> will free you from dealing with path references, for example:
>
> launch -a firefox
>
> will launch firefox no matter where firefox.app is located, courtesy
> of launcservices framework or whatever keeps track of the filesystem
> these days...

Using terminal with Mac 10.5.4  I get the following results:

Last login: Tue Jul 29 06:53:38 on ttys000
Macintosh:~ jimsims$ launch -a Pages
-bash: launch: command not found
Macintosh:~ jimsims$


No worky.

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