Command line folder closing

[RTCDude]

From a terminal, the 'open' command can be used to "open" a folder
in Finder. Is there a corresponding command to "close" a Finder folder?

Also, is there a command that will set the attributes of a folder, such
as view, window size, position, etc?

Thanks.

 

[davidbrit2]

Okay, it can be done, but it's a little more involved than simply using the open command. Basically, you have to do it by running short Applescript commands. If you want to make a shell script to do it for you, it would look like this:

#!/bin/sh
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\"" -e "close window \"$1\"" -e "end tell"

I saved it as /usr/local/bin/closewin, set execute permission with chmod, and it seems to work fine. I'm not sure how it would react if you had multiple windows open with the same directory name, though.