Open application from OSX Terminal with debug printouts

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I can open an application using open, like this:

open ./MyApp.app

But this doesn't display the application's debug printouts - which I need.

If I locate the binary inside the package manually and run that, I get the printouts fine, but I want to be able to just run the application.

So you don't want to just run the executable backgrounded from bash to see the output? I'm not sure that there's any other way to do this, the .app package is a proprietary Apple design that Bash wouldn't be personally aware of.
I want the application to run hidden but must also use cocoa. This works fine if I set "Application is agent" in the plist file and run it as an actual application. If I just run the binary directly, it doesn't run hidden and displays the dock+menu components.
Actually if I run the binary by specifying the path rather than cd-ing to it, it works fine. Cool.

Matt · Answer 1 · 2012-02-01 16:09:07Z

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The solution is to specify the absolute path of the application, rather than the path relative to the current directory.

For example,
open /home/matt/MyApp.app

answered Feb 1 at 16:09

Matt
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This shouldn't make any difference. – Daniel Beck Feb 1 at 16:26

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