Comments on: Ask OS X Daily: How Do I Force Open a File?

By: Encrypt & Decrypt Files from the Command Line with OpenSSL

Encrypt & Decrypt Files from the Command Line with OpenSSL — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:49 +0000

[...] with OpenSSL without entering the password? You’ll probably get an error message, but if you force open the file with something like TextEdit, you’ll see the text “Salted” followed by a [...]

By: Force Preview to Open an Image File - OS X Daily

Force Preview to Open an Image File - OS X Daily — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:12:10 +0000

[...] was corrupted. I remembered this trick from a post a few years back by our very own David Mendez, how to force open a file in Mac OS X, and this actually will work with nearly every application and file, so if you want to force an [...]

By: anon

anon — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:22:10 +0000

Can’t you just use:

open -a SomeApp somepeskyunassociatedfile

By: Weaver

Weaver — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:03:57 +0000

I just double click the file if I want to open it, call me old fashioned