Mac - command to run software through terminal

[Captain Carrot]

Hello,
I have just acquired a Mac, coming from the Linux world, I'm an addict and I sulked terminal mouse. After having hand at installing software on Mac, now I'd like to know how to start it via the terminal. For example, typing "preview abc.pdf" opens the application preview and allows me to read files. pdf. Is there written, the command to type in the terminal which corresponds to the launch of each application? Any help regarding this is appreciated. Thank you for your help.

[Windowed]

Hello,
Type "man open" in the Terminal lead you to discover "open-e file.txt" (for TextEdit) and "open-a Preview image.tif" (and many other apps: overview). It scrolls through the man pages with the or space, and it is left with Q. If you need any more information on the commands you can just type the command followed by the man and you will get all information.

[Captain Carrot]

But open does not allow me to open a single application, without passing a parameter file name. For example if I want to launch the web browser, I used to type firefox & Linux. It may seem a fuss, but I used to work like that and I did not really have time to change all my habits (I'm mainly spent on MAC as it uses a Unix kernel, so orders + or - identical to Linux, resulting in a loss of time due to the adaptation of the passage Linux -> OS X near zero). For now the solution I found is to create an alias in the . bash_profile for each installed application. But this could have serious long-term, that's why I ask if there is an alternative to this.

[SoftWore]

Hello,
You can try the following ctrl + space and you type firefox entered, and you spotlight starts the application. Otherwise, the command is for safari for example:

/ Applications / Safari.app / Contents / MacOS / Safari

You can try the following for any application in the terminal.

[Quattro]

Hello,
Is it really useful to get the binary (Contents / MacOS / Safari)? In a Terminal command: open

/ Applications / Safari.app seems well enough?

And shortcuts can be launched quickly using its software to a Terminal, itself opened with a shortcut. Profile and in my alias

my = "open / Applications / Mail.app"

and with my in Terminal I launch Mail.

[HardWeaR]

Here is the code

open-a Safari

You need to be more specific when you have two versions of an application if it
will suffice.
For applications whose name contains a space, think about the double quotes:
Code:

open-a "Microsoft Word"

The command is not case sensitive.