How to run xcode from terminal?

Question

My question is very simple: suppose there is an xcode project a.xcodeproj, could I open it with the command: xcode a.xcodeproj?

If I try this, I receiv

Answer 1

Xcode should be the default application for .xcodeproj files, so this should work:

$ open a.xcodeproj

If that opens a different application, you can force it to use xcode:

$ open -a Xcode a.xcodeproj

If you want the command xcode to work, you can just alias it:

$ alias xcode="open -a Xcode"

then you can just xcode a.xcodeproj (and add this to ~/.bash_profile)