{
"name": "open",
"description": "Open files, apps, or URLs using default application",
"options": [
{
"names": [
"-a"
],
"description": "Specify the application to use for opening the file",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "Application"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-b"
],
"description": "Specify the bundle identifier of the app to use to open the file",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "Bundle Identifier"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-D"
],
"description": "Reveals the enclosing folder in finder"
},
{
"names": [
"-e"
],
"description": "Opens the file with /Applications/TextEdit"
},
{
"names": [
"-t"
],
"description": "Open the file with the default text editor"
},
{
"names": [
"-f"
],
"description": "Read input from standard input and open the results in the default text editor"
},
{
"names": [
"-F",
"--fresh"
],
"description": "Opens the application without restoring windows"
},
{
"names": [
"-W",
"--wait-apps"
],
"description": "Waits until the applications exit"
},
{
"names": [
"-R",
"--reveal"
],
"description": "Reveals the file(s) in the Finder instead of opening them"
},
{
"names": [
"-n",
"--new"
],
"description": "Open a new instance of the application(s) even if one is already running"
},
{
"names": [
"-j",
"--hide"
],
"description": "Launches the app hidden"
},
{
"names": [
"-g",
"--background"
],
"description": "Do not bring the application to the foreground"
},
{
"names": [
"-h",
"--header"
],
"description": "Searches header locations for a header whose name matches the given string and then opens it"
},
{
"names": [
"-s"
],
"description": "For -h, the SDK to use; if supplied, only SDKs whose names contain the argument value are searched",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "partial SDK name"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-u",
"--url"
],
"description": "Open this URL, even if it matches exactly a filepath",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "URL"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-i",
"--stdin"
],
"description": "Launches the application with stdin connected to PATH; defaults to /dev/null",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "PATH",
"template": "filepaths"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-o",
"--stdout"
],
"description": "Launches the application with /dev/stdout connected to PATH",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "PATH",
"template": "filepaths"
}
},
{
"names": [
"--stderr"
],
"description": "Launches the application with /dev/stderr connected to PATH",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "PATH",
"template": "filepaths"
}
},
{
"names": [
"--env"
],
"description": "Add an enviroment variable to the launched process, where VAR is formatted AAA=foo",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "VAR"
}
},
{
"names": [
"--args"
],
"description": "All remaining arguments are passed to the opened application in the argv parameter to main(). These arguments are not opened or interpreted by the open tool",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "Arguments",
"is_variadic": true
}
}
],
"args": [
{
"is_variadic": true,
"template": "filepaths"
}
]
}