Launch an app on OS X with command line

Question

I want to launch an app on OSX from a script. I need pass it command line arguments. Unfortunately, open doesn\'t accept command line args.

The only opt

Answer 1

open also has an -a flag, that you can use to open up an app from within the Applications folder by it's name (or by bundle identifier with -b flag). You can combine this with the --args option to achieve the result you want:

open -a APP_NAME --args ARGS

To open up a video in VLC player that should scale with a factor 2x and loop you would for example exectute:

open -a VLC --args -L --fullscreen

Note that I could not get the output of the commands to the terminal. (although I didn't try anything to resolve that)