running eclipse from terminal in mac os x

Question

I've been trying to run eclipse from my mac os x terminal and I'm getting the error that no such eclipse command is found. I added the directory to my PATH variable and I'm able to run this just fine on linux, just not on mac osx.

Anyone know why this is?

Answer 1

Eclipse is a Mac Application (like Mail.app) rather than a simple executable so you open it from Terminal using the open command:

open /Applications/eclipse.app

This is assuming you are using Eclipse Mars or later, earlier versions of Eclipse have a different path.