December 6th, 2009

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.