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Does the MacOS shell not split at spaces, or how does that work without quotation?

• latexr 1y ago
  That’s not a shell command (otherwise “open” would be lowercase), it’s just an instruction.
  • 1718627440 1y ago
    Can you explain where you type that for non macOS users?
    • scottmf 1y ago
      No it's an instruction for humans
      • 1718627440 1y ago
        Funny, that didn't occur to me at all. :-/ Maybe that's because I'm used to the FHS and I expected a path starting with /System to be either a path that is interpreted by some command or a description of an UI flow, not a path in the file system. So the thing you would type in the shell is just '/System/Applications/Utilities/System Information.app'? Does the Finder support starting programs by typing the path in the pathbar, like MS Explorer on Windows?