Mac OS X: Bring GUI applications to foreground when launched from the command line

Question

Is there a way to bring GUI applications to the foreground when starting them from within Terminal on Mac OS X? If I run

/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/         


        

Answer 1

There seems to be even shorter variant:

> open -a TextEdit

Answer 2

At least for TextEdit and similar GUI apps, open will work:

> open /Applications/TextEdit.app