Open elementary apps from the command-line

Question

How can I open elementary apps from the command-line? Particularly Code and Files. I already found /usr/bin/io.elementary.files and /usr/bin/io.elementary.code, build they are not really convenient. Also, the latter doesn't detach from the terminal, so whenever the terminal window is closed, Code does the same.

Of course I can create an alias in the .bashrc file (which I did), but maybe there is a better way?

UPDATE:

Seems like the best route for files is adding the following line to the .bashrc:

alias files='/usr/bin/io.elementary.files'

So opening a dir from the terminal would be:

files /path/to/dir

For code, there still is the issue of detaching.

Answer 1

Besides writing io.elementary.code or creating an alias there isn't any way to open a app from the command line.

Answer 2

I find that I don't want to open apps specifically from the command line, I just want to open a document and have whatever app is needed open it.

xdg-open to the rescue!

So xdg-open ~/mypdf.pdf & will automatically open my pdf document in Document Viewer. I need the & to put the terminal command into the background.

Beware - you might end up with lots of GTK css warnings with some apps, most of which can be ignored.

Answer 3

try "pantheon-files" on terminal to open the file manager.

Answer 4

I don't really understand why you want to change a command, but if you want, using an alias is the way

Now, about detaching a process from a terminal, if you add & to the end it will detach and then you can close the terminal if you want/need and the process will continue running.