For anyone else who needs this, and didn't grasp what Raul and I were saying:

openw=: [: shell 'open ' , ]

openw jpath '~addons'   NB. ---for example


On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Raul. (So easy when you know.)
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> open
>>
>> Note that 'open' will perform the default action for the path, and
>> typically for a directory, that's going to give you finder.
>>
>> --
>> Raul
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Any Mac power-user out there, please...
>>>
>>> How do I open a Finder window on a given folder, the path stored in
>>> the J noun MYPATH? All I need is the Terminal.app command, and I can
>>> use the system verb: shell, like this:
>>>
>>>    shell 'ls ' , MYPATH
>>>
>>> In other words, what to use instead of 'ls ' ?
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