If you’re like me, you love Coda. Well, you may find the need to open a file, or set of files, from Terminal in Coda. Gregory Tomlinson has created a bash script to let you do just that.

Update May 20, 2011: It turns out that Tomlinson’s website is down. So, here is a brief synopsis of what you can do to add this functionality to your Mac.

• Open Terminal
• In terminal, enter: open .profile
• Add the following lines of code

  # TextMate

  # set path and simple shell function

  export TEXTMATE_PATH=/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate

  mate () {

  $TEXTMATE_PATH $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

  }

  # svn for TextMate (default editor, end-of-line types)

  export EDITOR="$TEXTMATE_PATH -w"

  export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

  # Coda

  # set path

  export CODA_PATH=/Applications/Coda.app

  # function roughly like 'mate .' by expanding '.' to '*.htm*'

  coda () {

  if [[ "." == $1 ]]

  then

  open -a $CODA_PATH *.htm*

  else

  open -a $CODA_PATH $1 $2 $3

  fi

  }

• Save .profile
• Quit Terminal
• Restart Terminal

There is also a slightly more robust script written for Coda by Aditya Bhargava that handles a few more tidbits and it is available on GitHub.

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