Run program from terminal

[petern]

How do I start a conventional Mac OS X program from the terminal?

For example Preview. It doesn't work for me to just type Preview in the terminal.

It works really fine starting X11 programs from the X11 terminal window, and I would like to do the same for usual Mac OS X programs from the normal Mac OS X termial window.

[acme.mail.order]

`open <path>`

e.g.

open /Applications/Preview.app

or

open Desktop/image.jpg

[hayne]

If you use the "-a" option to the 'open' command, then you don't need to give a path - the system will find the application wherever it is.
E.g.:

open -a Preview
open -a Safari

[Twelve Motion]

Do you need to type .app?

[Raven]

With Acme's method, yet, but not with the one proposed by Hayne.