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just use an alias
Authored by: housemaister on Jun 24, '04 09:40:31AM
Why don't you use just an alias? just add this line
alias open 'open -a'
in one of the unix startup files like .login or if you have .aliases

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just use an alias
Authored by: jonbauman on Jun 25, '04 01:12:11PM

Two reasons

  1. I'd still have to do quoting for application names with spaces in them.
  2. I'd have to remember which application names have spaces (e.g. "Text Edit" versus "TextEdit".

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