Re: touch/open on Mac
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg95933] Re: touch/open on Mac
- From: Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:43:38 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gls1ss$hi4$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Jan 29, 3:54 am, Frank Hu <frank1... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Group, > > I used to be able to create a new notebook by these two commands > > touch foo.nb > open foo.nb > > But after upgrading to V7, foo.nb is treated as a text file and saving = > the file will just save the textural content of the notebook and lose > all the structures. Is there anyway to get the old behavior back, > namely let Mathematica treat an empty file with an nb suffix as an > empty notebook file? > > Thanks, > Frank You might also try touch foo.nb open -a /Applications/Mathematica.app foo.nb (or whatever your Mathematica is named) -Bob