On a Mac, how do you start TextEdit or TextMate from a shell? (bash)

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Published on 2010-06-11T00:37:27Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 0:43 UTC
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I tried and the only way seemed like typing in

/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

in a bash shell. But even when I close the application, it is not considered an exit. I need to go to the app icon on the dock and click "Quit" so that it will exit.

Any other way to invoke and exit it? thanks.

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