Script for opening Komodo from the (Mac) command line

ko.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Usage: ko [options] FILE
# @author Weston Ruter (@westonruter)

# Komodo Edit or Komodo IDE?
if [ -e "/Applications/Komodo Edit.app" ]; then
    app="Komodo Edit"
else
    app="Komodo IDE"
fi

# Look at arguments and determine target file and if it exists
target_file=""
for arg in $@; do
    if [ -e "$arg" ]; then
        is_target_existing=1
    fi
    if [ ${arg:0:1} != '-' ]; then
        target_file="$arg"
    fi
done

# Instead of having Komodo open the (annoying) dialog box to confirm creation of file, confirm early
if [[ $target_file && ! $is_target_existing ]]; then
    echo "File doesn't exist: $target_file"
    echo "Hit enter to touch, or kill to abort..."
    read CONFIRM
    touch "$target_file"
fi

# @todo Why can't we pass the arguments $@ directly to the open command with --args? For example:
# open -a "$app" --args $@

# Instead I have to do the following:
open -a "$app"
"/Applications/$app.app/Contents/MacOS/komodo-bin" $@

# Bring the Komodo window into focus (again, the `open` command should suffice here)
osascript <<APPLESCRIPT
    tell application "/Applications/$app.app"
        activate
    end tell
APPLESCRIPT

FWIW I came up with this:

ko () {
    open -a Komodo
    /usr/bin/touch $*
    ~/Applications/Komodo.app/Contents/MacOS/komodo $*
}

I just touch all files automatically, as my filesystem has update timestamp on access/read disabled this generally doesn't matter.

I like your osascript trick too btw, will add that!