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Change the Finder's default name for duplicated files
Authored by: mantrid on Sep 04, '07 08:29:33AM

For the purpose of this hint, what good is opening the file if you can't edit it?

Maybe if you had spent more time thinking through your command instead of railing against my comment, you would have posted something that would work for someone not logged in as "root".



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Change the Finder's default name for duplicated files
Authored by: ClarkGoble on Sep 04, '07 09:29:41AM

Most editors will prompt you for the administrator password when editing these files. Smultron does. The problem with using open at the command line though is that you're never entirely sure what editor will open. That's why I didn't include it in the hint. Of course if you're at the command line using "sudo vi ..." instead of "open" will get you there. Assuming you've got sudo configured for your account.

Anyway open will work if you make this adjustment.

open -a "/Applications/myeditor.app" "path_to_file"




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