Once I navigate to a certain directory that has a .command file in it, how do I execute that file using Terminal?
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Once I navigate to a certain directory that has a .command file in it, how do I execute that file using Terminal?
If you want to execute it as if it was double-clicked in the Finder, you can use
open foo.command. This will spawn a new Terminal window. If you want to execute it “inline”, as it were, you can just use./foo.command, as .command files must have the exec bit set in order to function.