The
open -a <AppName.app>
is not working on one of my Yosemite based macbooks. The other one – also with Yosemite – works fine.
open -a TextEdit.app ~/out
(just hangs )
I have also tried other apps – to make sure the problem were not specifically with TextEdit. Nothing works. Also I am able to use Finder to open apps with TextEdit.
AFA the app's attempted: let us look at a simple built-in one:
$open -a TextEdit.app ~/out
Note that "open" has not been disturbed in any way: it is the one shipped with the MacBook
12:23:07/Applications $which open
/usr/bin/open
ls -lrta $(which open)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 92912 Sep 12 2014 /usr/bin/open
Best Answer
It appears the issue were rather with
iTerm2
. I tried the same commands on Terminal and it worked fine. I do need some of the features of iTerm and am investigating which version(s) actually work. The one I am using (and does not work) is the one on the Download link. So far I am having better luck with their iTerm 3.0 Alpha version.