On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 05:58 PM, John Delacour wrote:
> At 4:33 pm -0600 8/9/02, Charles Albrecht wrote:
>
>
>> `open -a "Microsoft Excel" $foo`
>>
>> (or whatever the Excel executable happens to be called on the target
>> system)
>>
>> But some versions of Excel (mine is ancient - YMMV with something newer
>> than v.4) might refuse to open files with an unfamiliar type.
>
> Aha! That's the sort of thing I needed, and it does work with my Excel
> 1998 running in Classic.
>
> Even this works: !
>
> open -a "SimpleText" junk.txt
>
> So at last Application names are cached somewhere with their paths. And
> about time too. Where?
>
from man open...
"The open command opens a file (or a directory), just as if you had dou-
ble-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is specified,
the
default application as determined via Finder is used to open the
speci-
fied files."
my emphasis... "as determined via Finder" So, in fact, you don't even
have to do...
`open -a "Microsoft Excel" $foo`
because...
`open foo.xls`
would work just as well, because the Finder knows that .xls has to be
opened with Excel.
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Puneet Kishor
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