Finder: launch from terminal command line?

hi!

Something I did made the Finder crash. I don't remember clearly - I may,
at some point, have decided it had become unresponsive and "relaunched" it.

Only it didn't. Relaunch, that is.

I was able to log in as another user and there was the Finder.

I finally restarted the machine (which actually took two restarts) and I
have the Finder again, just fine or so it seems. This is the first time
I have ever had to restart besides Apple software updates.

Can the Finder be launched from the Terminal? I did happen to have a
terminal window open but couldn't find out how.

What else might I have tried less drastic than shutting down? Is there
anything I should check now?

It all seemed to start when I plugged in a USB flash memory keychain
thing. Now I have to regain confidence before I do that again.

--
rob

On 2005-01-30, Robert A Moeser <> wrote:
> Can the Finder be launched from the Terminal?

Run 'open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app'.

Robert A Moeser <> wrote:
> What else might I have tried less drastic than shutting down? Is there
> anything I should check now?

How about clicking the Finder icon in the Dock?

Robert A Moeser <> exponit:
> Can the Finder be launched from the Terminal?

I put the following trivial scripts in ~/bin (make sure that that ~/bin in your PATH
and that you make the script files executable):

in a file called "run":

exec osascript <<EOF
tell app "$*"
activate
end tell

in a file called "quit":

exec osascript <<EOF
tell app "$*"
quit
end tell

They are quite handy in spite of being incredibly simple. Type "run finder" to start
Finder, or "quit dvd player" to quit DVD Player, etc.

Greg Shenaut

has anyone tried running disk utilities lately??? or running a fcsk???

D P Schreber <> wrote:

> On 2005-01-30, Robert A Moeser <> wrote:
> > Can the Finder be launched from the Terminal?
>
> Run 'open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app'.

$ open -a Finder

should be sufficient

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Robert A Moeser said the following on 30/01/2005 04:46 pm:
> hi!
>
> Something I did made the Finder crash. I don't remember clearly - I may,
> at some point, have decided it had become unresponsive and "relaunched" it.
>
<...>

> What else might I have tried less drastic than shutting down? Is there
> anything I should check now?

Would cmd+alt esc work, then click finder then 'relaunch'?

Andy