Launch is a command-line launching program developed by Apple, which allows users to open URLs, specify applications by their four-character creator or Java-style bundle ID, print documents, launch applications in the background, launch Carbon applications in Classic and report errors intelligibly.
v1.1 [Jun 9, 2010]
- -L: send "launch" (ascr/noop) event to app, bypasses automatic opening of untitled document, etc.
- -o: pass command-line arguments (still broken)
- display content type ID (UTI)
- display architecture of Mach-O files
- switched to new LSOpen APIs (now requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- switched to new date formatting APIs (the old ones are deprecated)
- for compatibility with open, take app path as argument to -a
- Universal Binary, compatible with Intel Macs
