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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Opening Applications from the commandline Post 302583650 by butterbaerchen on Wednesday 21st of December 2011 01:58:15 AM
Old 12-21-2011
Opening Applications from the commandline
as you probably/may know, one can open any application from the
application folder with the command
Code:
open -a program_name

I found that out today and so I created aliases in .bash_profile and
they work.
Code:
alias safari="open -a safari"
alias gimp="open -a gimp"
alias seamonkey="open -a seamonkey"
alias firefox="open -a firefox"
alias sketch="open -a sketchbookpro"
alias mindnode="open -a MindNode\ Pro"

spaces have to be escaped, so far so good.
since I have two vms in virtualbox I wanted to add parameters to these
open commands but looking for that I found that there is a simpler
way.
Code:
alias linux="VBoxManage startvm gNewSense"
alias xpro="VBoxManage startvm XP\ Professional"

now this is really nice - starts the vm without opening the virtualbox
screen.
I have several iphoto libraries and up to now I doubleclicked the
librarie file to open it, not anymore
I can just append the respective path to the open command
Code:
alias bpics="open -a iphoto /Volumes/HD500/BlenderImages"
alias images="open -a iphoto /Volumes/HD500/Image\ Database"
alias photos="open -a iphoto /Volumes/HD500/iPhoto\ Library"

in emacs I have to source .bash_profile first for the aliases to work
in a shell buffer ...
This may all be trivial but I would love to hear about how you do
things on your mac to navigate between the candy apps and the
underlying unix. So anyone - feel free to comment or point out better
ways, pitfalls, consequences etc. thank you.
 

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aliasadm

aliasadm(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      aliasadm(1M)

NAME

       aliasadm - manipulate the NIS+ aliases map

SYNOPSIS

       aliasadm -a alias expansion [options comments] optional flags

       aliasadm -c alias expansion [ options comments] [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -d alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -e alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -l alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -m alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm [-I] [-D domainname] [-f filename] [-M mapname]

DESCRIPTION

       aliasadm makes changes to the alias map.

       The alias map is an NIS+ table object with four columns:

       alias	       The name of the alias as a null terminated string.

       expansion       The value of the alias as it would appear in a sendmail /etc/aliases file.

       options	       A  list	of options applicable to this alias.  The only option currently supported is  CANON. With this option, if the user
		       has requested an inverse alias lookup, and there is more than one alias with this expansion, this alias	is  given  prefer-
		       ence.

       comments        An  arbitrary  string  containing comments about this alias. The sendmail(1M) command reads this map in addition to the NIS
		       aliases map and the local  /etc/aliases database.

OPTIONS

       -a	       Add an alias.

       -c	       Change an alias.

       -d	       Delete an alias.

       -e	       Edit the alias map.

       -I	       Initialize the NIS+ aliases database.

       -l	       List the alias map.

       -m	       Print or match an alias.

       -D domainname   Edit the map in domain  domainname instead of the current domain.

       -f filename     When editing or listing the database, use filename instead of invoking the editor.

       -M mapname      Edit mapname instead of mail_aliases.

FILES

       /etc/aliases    mail aliases for the local host in ASCII format

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnisu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from  NIS+  to  LDAP  are
       available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.10							    12 Dec 2001 						      aliasadm(1M)
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