how to open Disk Utility.app through Terminal?

[innvaderr]

can someone tell me the command to open Disk Utility through terminal?
I tried the following with no success;
open -a disk utility
open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app

thanks

 

[robbieduncan]

can someone tell me the command to open Disk Utility through terminal?
I tried the following with no success;
open -a disk utility
open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app

thanks

A .app is not a file. It's a directory that appears to be a file in the finder. Which is why you can't open it via that method.

You don't need to use the open utility: just run the executable within the .app container:

/Applications/Utilities/Disk\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\ Utility

Not the \ escapes for the spaces in the name are important.

Edit to add: the spaces are the reason your second open command doesn't work. The space ends the name of the application there so it's trying to open "/Applications/Utilities/Disk" which doesn't exist. You can make the open command work like this:

open "/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app"

or

open /Applications/Utilities/Disk\ Utility.app

 

[innvaderr]

thanks robbieduncan,

makes much more sense now!