There is even a shell command called "open" that opens its argument with the application Finder would use, or watever you pass as an option. (As a sidenote, yo

There is even a shell command called "open" that opens its argument with the application Finder would use, or watever you pass as an option. (As a sidenote, you can drag documents from the finder into a Terminal window and their absolute paths appear at the cursor position).