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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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apocalyptic0n3 ◴[27 Jun 23 20:08 UTC] No.36498002[source]▶
`open` is one I use all the time. I love that simple command.

    alias tab='open . -a iterm'
    alias phpstorm='open -a "PhpStorm"'
    alias smerge='open -a "Sublime Merge"'
etc. I use those more than I do the Open/Recents dialogs in the respective apps.
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jonpalmisc ◴[27 Jun 23 22:46 UTC] No.36499746[source]▶
Sublime Text and Sublime Merge actually ship with these CLI utilities by default, which have some additional features:

    $ fd 's(merge|ubl)$' /Applications/Sublime*                                          
    /Applications/Sublime Merge.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/smerge
    /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
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1. apocalyptic0n3 ◴[28 Jun 23 14:47 UTC] No.36507257[source]▶
I knew of (and use) `subl` but was unaware they provided their own `smerge`. I'll delete my own alias in favor of that. Thanks!