How to Open files in Mac directly from terminal?

Well, Guys Today we will be learning on how to open files in Mac directly from terminal?

First of all,

Open terminal.

Use cmd + space to open spotlight and type terminal and hit enter.

Now, that you have opened it , you will see something like this

Now, type open.

In this tutorial i will try to open name.cpp from desktop

In my MBP, it launches Xcode to open the file name.cpp. Xcode is the default application to open .cpp files.

However, if you want to open it in a different application like I have a text editor named atom and i want to open it in atom so i will hit a command like this

So, in short the command to open application is like this,

open -a "application-name" filename

and then hit enter.

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