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Re: by user3939382 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:16PM (#34087659)
Nope. macOS aliases suck. It’s a binary unmodifiable file that can only point to a file, it can’t specify anything additional.
Re: by DangitBobby on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:33PM (#34087820)
Is there a reason you can't add a script to your path and alias that?

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    my-command --flag --another-flag $@
Re: by varenc on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:48PM (#34087931)
As far as I know, you can’t get an executable script like that to act like an app that’s launchable when double clicked from Finder or clicked the Dock. Even though it’s executable.
Re: by DangitBobby on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:51PM (#34087956)
I just tried it, seems to work! Make your script with custom options, mark it as executable, make an alias for it within finder, and drag that into your dock.
Re: by battles on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:01PM (#34089217)
You can create a folder with a '.app' extension and put the script in there. Just make sure the script is executable with chmod and remove the '.sh' extension.