Re: Mac OSX Opening .app & UNIX EXEC

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I tried a few experiments to get around this, but all have failed. One of which was to use the "open myapp.app" shell command which doesn't re-open the application at all (no error or anything).

Man pages are your friend:

NAME
     open -- open files and directories
SYNOPSIS
     open [-a application] file ...
     open [-b bundle_identifier] file ...
     open [-e] file ...
     open [-t] file ...
     open [-f]
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You want the -a flag

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Re^2: Mac OSX Opening .app & UNIX EXEC by nevafuse (Novice) on May 19, 2009 at 18:09 UTC
"open myapp.app" in the terminal works fine without the -a flag. But for testing reasons, I also compiled it with the flag and it still doesn't open (no error either).	[reply]

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