Using Terminal

[Dave@UW]

I'm assuming it's possible to use terminal to open files, for example, to play a song in iTunes by using a terminal command. Can anyone tell me how to do this, I've searched but with no success.

Thanks.

 

[titaniumducky]

I'm assuming it's possible to use terminal to open files, for example, to play a song in iTunes by using a terminal command. Can anyone tell me how to do this, I've searched but with no success.

Thanks.

CD into the directory. Use the "open" command. Read the man, if you want details on it.

Basically, use "open -a" to specify an application to open your file with.

 

[HexMonkey]

You can use the open command for this. For example:

open ~/Music/Song.mp3

You can specify an application other than the default by using the -a flag, eg:

open -a iTunes ~/Music/Song.mp3

or

open -a /Applications/iTunes.app ~/Music/Song.mp3

Edit: Whoops, titaniumducky beat me to it by a minute.

 

[abhishekit]

open /path/of/your/song
or
open *drag your song here from the finder*

cheers

 

[stcanard]

open *drag your song here from the finder*

Now that is too cool. I had no idea.

Funny, I swear OSX has the best integrated command line of any OS I have ever used.

You just made may day