Set custom file extension to open with specified program

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I want to have all files with an extension of .fw.png to open in Fireworks (not necessarily .png files though).

Is there a way to do this in Terminal?

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No. OS X file types ignore strings before the final .

You could rename all files x.fw.png to x.fw_png and then map that file type to FireWorks using many existing answers here but totally reprogramming how the OS parses for file extensions would be a hard nut to crack.

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If you don't mind specifying InDesign 5.5 every time, then this command line should work:

open -a 'InDesign 5.5' myfile.indd

If you're going to do this often, you can wrap it in a shell script or bash function like

function indd() { open -a 'InDesign 5.5' "$@" ; }

Then you'll be able to simply say

indd myfile.indd

MacOS – How to copy all files with extension/filetype in terminal

cp ~/Desktop/*.jpeg /Volumes/flashdrive/

will copy all of the files on the current user's desktop with extension ".jpeg" to the drive named "flashdrive".

If the above command produces an Argument list too long error, then the safest most efficient way to handle it is to use a for loop like this:

for f in ~/Desktop/*.jpeg; do cp "$f" /Volumes/flashdrive/; done

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