Launching an application from Bash

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Published on 2012-07-04T18:56:56Z Indexed on 2012/07/04 21:18 UTC
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I'm right now busy with moving the first steps into Linux, i'm using a bash shell within a mac osx

I see in all tutorials that in order to launch an application from the bash its necessary to cd to its directory and simply type the name of the app. This is exatly what i'm doing and it does not work (i have on my desktop a 'Eclipse' folder with the launcher icon in it):

cd Desktop
cd Eclipse
Eclipse.app

Why will this not work? I read everywhere that typing the name of the app its enough

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