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xed(1)                    BSD General Commands Manual                   xed(1)

NAME
     xed -- Xcode text editor invocation tool.

SYNOPSIS
     xed [-xcwrbhv] [-l lineno] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The xed tool launches the Xcode application and opens the given documents, or opens a new untitled doc-ument, document,
     ument, optionally with the contents of standard in.

OPTIONS
     The options for xed are similar to those for the command-line utiltiies for other text editors:

     -x, --launch
              Launches Xcode opening a new empty unsaved file, without reading from standard input.

     -c, --create
              Creates any files in the file list that do not already exist.  If used without --launch, stan-dard standard
              dard input will be read and piped to the last file created.

     -w, --wait
              Wait for the files to be closed before exiting.  xed will idle in a run loop waiting for a
              notification from Xcode when each file is closed, and will only terminate when all are closed.
              This is useful when invoking it from a script.

     -l, --line <number>
              Selects the given line in the last file opened.

     -b, --background
              Opens Xcode without activating it; the process that invoked xed remains in front.

     -h, --help
              Prints a brief summary of usage.

     -v, --version
              Prints the version number of xed

     [file...]
              A list of file paths.  Existing files will be opened; nonexistent files will be created only
              if the --create flag is passed.  If no files are passed, then standard input will be read and
              piped into a new untitled dcument (unless --launch is passed).  If --create and at least one
              nonexistent file name is passed, the last nonexistent file will be created, filled with the
              standard input, and opened.

HISTORY
     xed was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 with Xcode 3.0.

Mac OS                           April 2, 2008                          Mac OS