How to open Xcode from terminal?

Question

I noticed my current bash file has export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MAMP/library/bin which i put there to set up terminal access to mamp. I\'ve been trying to compi

Answer 1

Old thread, but I just recently researched if there's a way to open Xcode from the terminal myself, and was not satisfied when discovering the overly verbose $ open -a Xcode projname.xcodeproj command. You could alias half the command like Arian Faurtosh's answer, but if you're going to edit a bash script, a function can serve you much better.

My solution:

# Function to open Xcode projects from the command line, call with $ xcode
function xcode {

  proj=$(ls -d *.xcodeproj/ 2>/dev/null)

  if [ -n "$proj" ]; then
    # Omit -beta if you're not using beta version
    open -a Xcode-beta "$proj"
  else
    echo "No Xcode project detected."
  fi

}

Save above code to whatever file your shell sources each session. Now you can use $ xcode and it will launch Xcode as long as your current directory contains a .xcodeproj dir.