The Tips - Mac Kung Fu - page 338

Applications that involve two words (like Google Chrome) need to be enclosed
in quotation marks:
OPEN -A "GOOGLE CHROME"
Alternatively, you can escape the spaces in the usual way with backslashes
(that is, OPEN-AGOOGLE\CHROME ).
You need to enter the name of the application as it appears in the Applications
view of Finder.
To open a file with a specific application, just list it afterward. For example,
to open TEXTFILE.TXT in TextEdit, type the following:
OPEN -A TEXTEDIT TESTFILE.TXT
Opening a Web Address in a Browser Window
To open a web address, specify it after OPEN , but make sure you include the
HTTP:// prefix, or you'll see an error message:
OPEN HTTP://WWW.APPLE.COM
Other URLs will work fine too: OPEN SSH://192.168.1.1 will open an secure shell
connection with the computer at 192.168.1.1 , for example. See also Tip 131,
Add Magical Links for Email, Messages, Web, and More , on page 148 .
Creating a New Mail
Just type OPEN -A MAIL , and then type the filename for any attachment. For
example, to create a new mail with the file DISNEYLAND.JPG attached, I would type
the following:
OPEN -A MAIL DISNEYLAND.JPG
Tip 326
Quickly Turn Emails into Docs
If you use Mail, you can simply click to highlight any message within the
Inbox, hit COMMAND + C , and then hit COMMAND + V to paste the message contents
into an editor such as TextEdit (pasting into Microsoft Word doesn't work).
There's no need to manually select all the text in the message.