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Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Feb 23, '04 04:00:11PM

Not only is this what Terminal was invented for (I keep a little 20x4 terminal window up all the time) our gracious host once published a script I wrote for automatically mapping all applications to aliases:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020403091601117

One caveat, however - Panther's default csh scripts no longer load the contents of ~/Library/init/tcsh, you have to restore the old scripts by copying them from /usr/share/tcsh/examples into /etc.

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Authored by: sjk on Feb 23, '04 10:49:34PM

Or "source" the example init files. My ~/.cshrc file contains:

if (-r /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc) source /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc

See /usr/share/tcsh/examples/README for more info.



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Authored by: RickoKid on Feb 23, '04 10:57:26PM

That would work - but this way Applescript finds the application - you don't have to map aliases of type in full path names - Applescript will find the application (even if it is only on a removable disk or network volume I believe)



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Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Feb 23, '04 11:48:53PM

I don't think you realize what the scripts I mention do - they find all the apps automatically and build the aliases, automatically. You don't even have to add them to the script - any file ending in ".app" is found and an alias is built for it. My current alias files include 141 applications, from "addressbook" to "zinioreader". I didn't type in one of them.

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Authored by: TomP on Feb 24, '04 02:05:53PM

I think it's clear that launching MacOSX apps is /not/ what the Terminal was invented for, or you wouldn't have to resort to massive alias creation in order to make it usable for that purpose. This script is a much cleaner way of quickly making all your applications accessible than anything that requires bringing up the Terminal.



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Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Feb 26, '04 03:29:34PM

How is making aliases a "resort"? It's what they're for. Add in autocompletion and I can launch any app by just typing the first few letters.

I think you're reaching for reasons to hate terminal.

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