andrewsardone

This is just a quick tip given that a lot of people have grown to love TextMate's mate command. Simply add the following to your shell's configuration file to simulate the behavior for Xcode.

Without any parameters, xcode simply looks for an Xcode project file to open.

$ ls
Classes                Mapper-Info.plist      Mapper_Prefix.pch build
MainWindow.xib         Mapper.xcodeproj       RootViewController.xib main.m

$ xcode    # opens Mapper.xcodeproj

You can also name the file you'd like to open in Xcode.

$ xcode main.m    # opens main.m in an Xcode editor window