You can open media files using the terminal, but typically you won't be viewing them inside the terminal itself, like with text files. Instead, the terminal will act as a launcher for an external ...

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu.

Open a File in a Text Editor: open -t ./path/to/your-file.md The -t option specifies that the file should be opened in a text editor. ... Using Shortcuts to Open Terminal at a Folder.

You can use it to do things like open an application, open a file (through its default app), or open a file using a specific application or the text editor. Visit Business Insider's homepage for ...

Converting texts between formats is a bit of a pain to do on a file-by-file basis, but thankfully, MacIssues shows how to convert text files in bulk using a simple terminal command.

Instead of switching out to the Finder, or using the open command, you can Quick Look the file directly from Terminal. How? The key is a Unix program, qlmanage , introduced in OS X 10.5 and built ...

Microsoft has given an option in all their command-line utilities, Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Terminal to send Command output to a text file. In this post, we will see how that’s done.