xc

Open the Xcode project file with the specified version

Usage

Open project file with preferred Xcode version:

xc

Open project file with Xcode 14.2.0:

xc -v 14.2.0

xc list

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Available Xcode:
14.2    /Applications/Xcode.app         <xcode-select>
14.1    /Applications/Xcode14.1.app
13.4.1  /Applications/Xcode13.4.1.app
13.2.1  /Applications/Xcode13.2.1.app

Feature

Automatic project file searching (priority)

1. User specified path
2. .xcworkspace
3. .xcodeproj
4. Package.swift

Automatic Xcode version searching (priority)

1. User specified version
2. .xcode-version
3. $ xcode-select

Show all Xcode list you installed

Automatically searching xcode via NSWorkspace.shared.urlsForApplications(withBundleIdentifier: "com.apple.dt.Xcode").

xc list

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Available Xcode:
14.2    /Applications/Xcode.app         <xcode-select>
14.1    /Applications/Xcode14.1.app
13.4.1  /Applications/Xcode13.4.1.app
13.2.1  /Applications/Xcode13.2.1.app

Open Xcode.app without opening project

Simply run:

xc -n

Automatically changing developer directory via xcode-select

When you execute xc or xc open command, automatically execute sudo xcode-select --switch. This needs sudo password. You can setting sudo password via $ xc config

Warning

This feature is disabled by default.

You can enabled this feature by executing command below.

$ xc config write --sudo-password <sudo-password> --auto-xcode-select-enabled true

Command completion

This command is built on swift-argument-parser.

Please refer to this article.

Replace example with xc.

Installation

Homebrew

brew install s2mr/tap/xc

Swift Package Manager

Add the following to the dependencies of your Package.swift:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/s2mr/xc.git", from: "xc version"),
]

Run command:

swift run -c release xc [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Mint

Install with Mint by following command:

mint install s2mr/xc

Run command:

mint run s2mr/xc [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Using a pre-built binary

You can also install xc by downloading xc.zip from the latest GitHub release.

Help

xc --help

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OVERVIEW: This tool launches the Xcode application and opens the given documents.

USAGE: xc <subcommand>

OPTIONS:
  --version               Show the version.
  -h, --help              Show help information.

SUBCOMMANDS:
  list                    Available Xcodes list
  open (default)          Shows available versions of Xcode
  config                  Read and write xc command config. Config json is stored at `~/.config/xc/config.json`
  env                     Current environment

  See 'xc help <subcommand>' for detailed help.

xc open --help

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OVERVIEW: Shows available versions of Xcode

USAGE: xc open [-v <v>] [<path>]

ARGUMENTS:
  <path>                  File path

OPTIONS:
  -v <v>                  Open with specific Xcode version
  --version               Show the version.
  -h, --help              Show help information.