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Is there a way to return to the command line after opening the application through it?

I want to be able to open the application on the command line, but instead of switching to the application, I want to stay on the terminal emulator. Is there a way to do this? I am using OS X.

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Use a flag -g

open

that avoids bringing the application to the fore.

$ open -g /Applications/TextEdit.app
$


open

will launch the application and then return to the command line.

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After starting the program, press ctrl+z

and enter bg

. You will be returned to your terminal CLI.



Whenever you want to return to your program, just type fg

.

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You can do a background job. In the Bash shell, this is done with &

. For example:

some_script_or_application &

Note that some daemons and processes are on their own. For example, on OS X, launch open some.pdf

will view the PDF in a GUI, returning immediately the command line without having to do anything special.

See the GNU Bash manual for job management for background jobs for details .

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