Re: "openapp AppName.app" versus "openapp ./AppName.app"

[Ivan Vučica]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 18:15, Riccardo Mottola <rm@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi,

That isn't the question.

If you want openapp to find applications in the current directory, just add "." to your path. If you understand why this isn't a great idea, it is easy for your to live with the inconvenience of typing "openapp ./AppName.app".

I give a plus for Fred here.

Also, consider that if you have an application in your CWD, you can just open it by typing appname.app/appname

Oh! I was unaware that openapp uses the PATH. In that case, not launching an app in CWD makes sense. I do find it odd that openapp inspects the PATH, since the app bundles are not executables by themselves. I do understand the logic behind it, however, and I'm fine with it.

But to be honest, I was surprised that openapp was a shell script; does it inspect the Info.plist in the app bundle at all, to determine which executable to launch?

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