Quite often I find myself in the Terminal and want to open Xcode with the project in the current directory:
% open CurrentProject.xcodeproj
This works just fine, of course, but with the following alias (added to ~/.cshrc), I don't need to know the name of the project, assuming there is always only one project in the current directory:
% alias xcode '\ls | grep xcodeproj | xargs open'
% xcode
N.B. The use of \ls
ignores the alias that I have for 'ls'. Instead of ls *.xcodeproj
, the pipe via grep avoids errors like "ls: No match.".
P.S. Knowing the name of the project is actually not the problem; since there are multiple items named "Current" or "CurrentProject" in the same folder, the issue is that I can't just type open SHIFT+C<TAB><CR>
(where pressing TAB autocompletes the name); instead, I have to type: open SHIFT+C<TAB>SHIFT+P<TAB>.x<TAB><CR>
.
Update
The Xcode text editor invocation tool xed
can achieve much the same thing; just type:
% xed .