Comment by wwader
2 years ago
open -a is nice, i use it with alias, ex:
alias qt='open -a "quicktime player"'
alias vlc='open -a "vlc"'
2 years ago
open -a is nice, i use it with alias, ex:
alias qt='open -a "quicktime player"'
alias vlc='open -a "vlc"'
At least for me (I've installed vlc via homebrew), there is a vlc binary in the PATH, and I can just vlc <filename>
The point here is to open a document with an app not assigned as default for the given mime-type by file name extension.