Simple zsh wrapper to launch iA Writer from the terminal

README.md

This is a simple script to launch iA Writer from the terminal. It is extremely useful for interacting with Github's own wiki system as it provides git access.

INSTALL

One-liner

curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/2025540/4f3f094286468db2588f40345e6faaf07bd5af2a/ia > /usr/local/bin/ia && chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/ia

Manual, safer way

1. Copy the script below to /usr/local/bin (or anywhere else where you store your custom executables)
2. Make it executable: chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/ia

Usage

Simple launch

$ ia

Launch and open a file

$ ia Home.md

Launch multiple files

$ ia Home.md About.md FAQ.md

ia

#!/bin/zsh

for FILE in "$@"
do
	open -a "iA Writer" "$FILE"
done;

I've ported this to bash - just changing the header and the appending to the args variable.

I did find a little bug in your snippet though. If you have the iA Writer app open already, and try to open something from the shell, you will end up with a new empty file and not the files you asked for.

I tinkered around with it a bit, and found that if I removed the --args flag it worked.

Cool! Thanks for letting me know. I'll play around with it as well and see what's going on there!

In the spirit of Mountain Lion, I've updated this gist with the latest script:

July 2012 fixes

• Previous instance of iA Writer is reused if ia command is invoked while instance of iA Writer is already active;
• Fixed an issue with escaping arguments

Enhancements

• One-liner install command

I've just created a fork and added in a if/else to check if file params exist, and create if not.
https://gist.github.com/3605724

alias ia="open -a 'iA Writer'"

works for me... (put in .zshrc if you like)

Thank you @lwu

bash / OS/X folks might appreciate this version:

ia() {
   for FILE in "$@"; do
      if [ ! -e "$FILE" ]; then
        touch "$FILE"
      fi
   done
   open -a "iA Writer" "$@"
}

Then just put this function definition in your $HOME/.bash_login file (for example).