How to open any installed application on MAC OS X using Terminal !

MAC OS X 10.9 is one of the finest operating systems used in the business as well as household purposes. Considering the unix side of the operating system, it becomes beneficial to be able to do trivial stuff like opening any app directly from the command line interface, i.e. Terminal in this case. There are a lot of other uses that a utility like terminal can offer you but for the instant purpose, let us find out how to open any of the installed applications on your MACINTOSH using the terminal.

I will be working with few of the application I have installed on my system. You are free to choose your own.

The general syntax for the command is :
open -a application_name
If you want to open the application as a super user, just prefix the command with sudo :
sudo open -a application_name

Test commands : (Use these commands one-by-one to open the specified applications)

open -a textmate
open -a bbedit
open -a firefox
open -a opera
open -a finder
open -a mail

Watch the video below for more.

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