XED(1) General Commands Manual XED(1)

xed — Xcode text editor invocation tool.

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

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

The options for xed are similar to those for the command-line utilities 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, standard 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 document (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.

xcodebuild(1), xcode-select(1), xcrun(1)

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

March 19, 2015 Mac OS X