How To Open Everything on Terminal (1)

Author: Doe Hoon LEE

How Do I Open Things with Mac Terminal?!

Why do we need to do this?

Well, I was always so annoyed by tapping that tiny little arrow and open Applications.

So let me introduce you to a simple and better way!!

Well, let’s find out together!

[0] First, how do we open a folder??

open

Say again? YES, it is that simple~!

You only have type in the path of the folder you would like to open.

open <path>

For example,

open /Documents/SampleFolder

[1] Secondly, how do we then open applications??

Do we have to navigate to Applications folder?

Well, luckily, if we type in open -help on the terminal,

we are going to use the very first option introduced in here: -a.

Try typing in open -a terminal.

Yay! new terminal opened!

[1-1] BUT to ensure that we know all the applications we have and to type in the terminal to open, let’s see how we can check the list of applications.

cd / && cd Applications && ls

this will show the list of Applications you have installed.

[2] Shall we try opening an application and see if it works well?

open -a Google Chrome

ooops!! What happened?!

Well, there’s a space in Application name.. hmm.. what do we do?

open -a 'Google Chrome'

YAY!!