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Article #783Re: Command-line apps now harder (Can you pass arguments?)
From: mkrogers
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 14:00
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 14:00
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In article <60105@mimsy.umd.edu>, alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes: > In article <1992Sep4.194248.568@leland.Stanford.EDU> cooldude@elaine49.stanford.edu writes: >> How can you also pass arguments to the application being opened. e.g, open >> bar.app and have it open a file called "foo". > > open foo.x > > will open the file foo.x using whatever app you've selected > as the default app for files with suffix x, just as if > you'ld double clicked it in a Workspace file viewer. Try "open -a bar foo". You can leave off the .app extension of bar if it has one. > no extension - and you'll get the default app - probably Edit. This is what happens to me. I don't know if there's a default you can dwrite to change this. -mike rogers
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