Feb 26, 2003 The command is simply open (which can also be used for opening directories). The most basic example of launching an application: open /path/to/some.app More complex possibilities also exist: open '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/foo.txt'. For Mac users: One thing that made the accepted answer not work for me is that I didn't drag the vs code package into the applications folder. So you need to drag it to the applications folder then you run the command inside vs code (shown below) as per the official document. Launch VS Code.
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Feb 01, 2007 Opening Mac OS X Applications from the Command Line. The Terminal command to launch OS X gui apps is appropriately called ‘open’ and here is how it works at it’s most simple: open -a ApplicationName. That will open the defined app named “ApplicationName”. But open is much more powerful than that.
How to open multiple instances of an application in OS X. By default the Mac OS supports running one instance of a program at a time in a specific user account; however, if more than one instance.
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Terminal User Guide
Each window in Terminal represents an instance of a shell process. The window contains a prompt that indicates you can enter a command. The prompt you see depends on your Terminal and shell preferences, but it often includes the name of the host you’re logged in to, your current working folder, your user name, and a prompt symbol. For example, if a user named michael is using the default zsh shell, the prompt appears as:
This indicates that the user named michael is logged in to a computer named MacBook-Pro, and the current folder is his home folder, indicated by the tilde (~).
Open Terminal
On your Mac, do one of the following:
Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, type Terminal in the search field, then click Terminal.
In the Finder , open the /Applications/Utilities folder, then double-click Terminal.
Quit Terminal
In the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal > Quit Terminal.
Quit a shell session
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In the Terminal app on your Mac, in the window running the shell process you want to quit, type exit, then press Return.
This ensures that commands actively running in the shell are closed. If anything’s still in progress, a dialog appears.
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If you want to change the shell exit behavior, see Change Profiles Shell preferences.
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See alsoApple Support article: Use zsh as the default shell on your MacExecute commands and run tools in Terminal on MacChange the default shell in Terminal on MacOpen new Terminal windows and tabs on MacUse profiles to change the look of Terminal windows on MacApple Developer website: Command Line Primer