openapp - launch applications from the command line

openapp [--find] application [arguments...]

The openapp command allows you launch graphical GNUstep applications from the command line.a

application is the complete or relative name of the application program with or without the .app extension, like Ink.app.

arguments are the arguments passed to the application.

openapp first checks whether the application is in the current working directory. If not then searches the GNUstep domains' Applications folders in the following order: User (i.e. ~/GNUstep/Applications), Local, Network, System. First match wins.

If application is given without extension (i.e. Ink instead of Ink.app), openapp searches for application.app , application.debug , application.profile (in that order).

If --find is used as first argument, openapp prints out the full path of the application executable which would be executed, without actually executing it as it would normally do.

--find print complete path of the executable which would be launched.

--help print above usage description.

Start Ink.app without additional parameters:

openapp Ink.app

Launch Ink.app and pass it the --GNU-Debug argument:

openapp Ink.app --GNU-Debug=NSTextView

To determine which executable is launched by openapp, type:

openapp --find Ink.app

The output of the abovecommand might be something like: /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Ink.app/Ink

openapp does currently not handle library combos.

GNUSTEP_PATHLIST This variable contains the paths of the domains in which gopen tries to find applications to open the files with. Entries are separated by a colon.

Example:

/home/foo/GNUstep:/usr/GNUstep/Local:/usr/GNUstep/Network:/usr/GNUstep/System

GNUstep(7), gopen(1)

Work on openapp started October 1997.

This manual page was first written July 2003.

openapp was originally written by Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> and is now maintained by Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>.

This man page was written by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>.