[Numenor]

How would one go about opening an application using the Terminal?

I wanted to try opening Internet Explorer with it... however every time I try the command

open Internet Explorer.app

it won't do it... Yes I am in the correct directory so that's not the problem, and I have tried looking at some FAQs about using it. So far though, I'm still too new at this command line stuff to know really what I'm doing.

Anyone able to help me on this?

[SMacTech]

open "Internet Explorer.app"

[Misanthrope]

^^^That works too.

Try open Internet\ Explorer.app/

Unix is finnicky about spaces. Try this next time:

Type open Ine
hit tab
Type e
hit tab again
hit enter.

Voila.

[Turias]

I bet it's because of the space.

Try

open Internet\ Explorer.app


You can also type "open " and then drag the IE icon to the terminal window. That will paste the location and filename to the command line.

[EDIT: Damn, I'm a slow one.]

[Numenor]

Cool, thanks a lot. This is pretty much the first time I've dealt with this command line stuff.

Also, one other thing... do any of you know how to make Safari reset it's cache more often? I find when surfing message boards that the pages aren't updated as often as necessary to register the latest post in a topic.

Is there anything that can be done?

[Turias]

The only think I can think of off the top of my head is writing an AppleScript that does this. You could then tell that script to run every x minutes, if you wanted.

I don't have a lot of experience with AppleScripts, though, but it might be something to look into...

[Numenor]

Heh, I've got even less than you I'd bet... I can't code worth crap. Hmmm... maybe I might be able to find something on the web that would do it, otherwise I guess I'll have to wait until a later version of Safari comes out that has that ability in it.

[dagaz]

make Safari reset it's cache

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for but its pretty easy to reset the cache with the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-E then hit return when the dialog box comes up.

[Numenor]

Heh, yeah... that's what I'm trying to avoid having to do, but for now am stuck with. They really need to include in the next build the ability to define how often Safari reloads the webpage instead of going directly to the cache.