`open -a` results in an "Unable to find application" error on OS X
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Have you considered the following?
open -a Numbers
Applications opened by open
aren't opened relative to their path, but just according to their actual name, as identified in Contents/Info.plist
in the .app
file itself.
If you want to be sure, you can also use the Bundle Identifier with the -b
option:
open -b com.apple.iTunes
Which can be found in the Info.plist
file too:
ANSWER 2
Score 0
Have you tried, alias num='/Applications/iWork '09/Numbers.app/'
?
It works for me. Add this to your ./bashrc
and source it. Then you can just execute it by typing num
Using absolute path every time can be tedious.