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openapp(1)						       GNUstep System Manual							openapp(1)

NAME

       openapp - launch applications from the command line

SYNOPSIS

       openapp [--find] [--debug [--gdb= debuger]] [ --library-combo=library-combo ] application [arguments...]

DESCRIPTION

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

       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.

OPTIONS

       --find application
	      will print out the full path of the application executable which would be executed, without actually executing it. It will also list
	      all paths that are attempted.

       --debug application
	      starts  the  application	in the debugger. By default gdb, but this can be changed with the --gdb= argument or through the GDB shell
	      variable.

       --library-combo=library-combo
	      Starts the application with the specified library combo. This is a rarely used option in a non-flattened	setup.	See  the  library-
	      combo(7) man-page for more information about the different library combinations.

       --help print above usage description.

EXAMPLES

       Start Ink.app without additional parameters:

       openapp Ink.app

       Launch Ink.app and pass it the --debug argument:

       openapp --debug Ink.app

       To determine which executable is launched by openapp, type:

       openapp --find Ink.app

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

ENVIRONMENT

       GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE
	      is  used	to  determine where the GNUstep.sh configuration file is located. If the variable is not set openapp tries to locate it in
	      the folder where openapp was started, then in the user domain, and as a last resort in the system domain (or actually the place  you
	      configured (--with-config-file=) during building).

       GDB    Sets the debugger to use when --debug is used.

SEE ALSO

       debugapp(1), GNUstep(7), gopen(1), library-combo(7), opentool(1)

HISTORY

       Work on openapp started October 1997.

       openapp was originally written by Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> and is now maintained by Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innova-
       tion.com>

AUTHORS

       This manual page was first written July 2003 by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>.

       Updated with notes from Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org> and Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com>, December 2007 by Dennis Leeuw.

gnustep-make							    12/12/2007								openapp(1)

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GOPEN(1)						       GNUstep System Manual							  GOPEN(1)

NAME

       gopen - open files

SYNOPSIS

       gopen [-a application] [-o] [-p] [-NXHost hostname] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The gopen command allows you open a file (or directory) as if you had double clicked the object's icon.

       It is possible to specify one or more filenames which are interpreted relative to the current working directory.

       By  default,  gopen will open filename with the application currently assigned to the file's extension. But by specifing the -a flag on the
       command line you can tell gopen to open the file with another application.

       You can also directly print a file without ( -p ) or with ( -p -o ) opening it.

       As with most other GNUstep software, it is easily possible to attach the process to a remote window server using the -NXHost flag.

OPTIONS

       -a application
	      use application to open filename

       -o     open filename (may be used in conjunction with -p ).

       -p     print filename instead of opening.

       -NXHost hostname
	      attach to remote window server on hostname

EXAMPLES

       Open all files with a .txt extension in the current directory:

       gopen *.txt

       To open a source file in CodeEditor (instead of the current default application), type:

       gopen -a CodeEditor MySourceFile.m

       To print the .plan file in your home folder, use the -p flag:

       gopen -p ~/.plan

BUGS

       Using the -a application argument, gopen allows you to open any kind of file with any application you want. This does,  however,  not  work
       with applications employing the NSDocument architecture as they will only receive filenames whose types the application has registered.	To
       circumvent this limitation, applications may advertise their ability to open all kinds of files through the "*" filetype.   When  gopen	is
       used with only the -a application argument but no filename
	present, the application is simply launched without opening a specific file.

SEE ALSO

       GNUstep(7), openapp(1)

HISTORY

       gopen was written November 2001.

       This manual page was first written July 2003.

AUTHORS

       gopen was written by Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>.

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

GNUstep 							    August 2003 							  GOPEN(1)

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