https://github.com/pforret/shlaunch
Launch desktop/GUI apps from CLI (e.g. Chrome, PHPStorm, Photoshop ...)
https://github.com/pforret/shlaunch
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Launch desktop/GUI apps from CLI (e.g. Chrome, PHPStorm, Photoshop ...)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pforret/shlaunch
- Owner: pforret
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-04-01T20:55:57.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-05-16T13:33:05.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-04T12:52:46.030Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: bash, bashew, launcher, macos
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 706 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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# shlaunch
Start applications like Lightroom/Sublime Text/Chrome from CLI
## 🔥 Usage
```
Program: shlaunch 0.1.3 by peter@forret.com
Updated: Apr 18 09:32:42 2021
Description: Run applications from CLI
Usage: shlaunch [-h] [-q] [-v] [-l ]
Flags, options and parameters:
-h|--help : [flag] show usage [default: off]
-q|--quiet : [flag] no output [default: off]
-v|--verbose : [flag] output more [default: off]
-l|--log_dir > : [option] folder for log files [default: /Users/pforret/log/shlaunch]
: [parameter] program to start: phpstorm/spotify/... (optional)
: [parameter] parameters to start program with (optional)
### TIPS & EXAMPLES
* use shlaunch [application] [folder/file] to start the application
shlaunch phpstorm .
* use [alias] [folder/file] to start the [alias] application (alias = symlink to shlaunch)
phpstorm .
lightroom Photos/IMG1243547.dng
* use shlaunch check to check if this script is ready to execute and what values the options/flags are
shlaunch check
* use shlaunch env to generate an example .env file
shlaunch env > .env
* use shlaunch update to update to the latest version
```
There are aliases (symbolic links) that facilitate usage.
E.g. `firefox www.google.com` is equivalent to `shlaunch firefox www.google.com`,
because of the pre-existing symbolic link `ln -s shlaunch.sh firefox`.
## Applications supported
| application | alias | MacOS | Ubuntu | Fedora |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|-------|--------|--------|
| [Adobe Lightroom](https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html) | _lightroom_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Adobe Photoshop](https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html) | _photoshop_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Apple Safari](https://www.apple.com/safari/) | _safari_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Filezilla](https://filezilla-project.org/) | _filezilla_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/) | _firefox_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/) | _chrome_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Jetbrains PhpStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/) | _phpstorm_ | ✅ | - | - |
| [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) | _sublime_ | ✅ | - | - |
## ⌨️ Examples
```bash
> phpstorm .
# start PhpStorm with current folder as project
> safari www.google.com
# open Safari with Google website
```
## 🚀 Installation
with [basher](https://github.com/basherpm/basher)
$ basher install pforret/shlaunch
or with `git`
$ git clone https://github.com/pforret/shlaunch.git
$ cd shlaunch
## 📝 Acknowledgements
* script created with [bashew](https://github.com/pforret/bashew)
© 2021 [Peter Forret](https://github.com/pforret)