Bash script for Mac to start rider from command line and open the current Unreal Project

README.md

Rider Start Script

Bash script for Mac to start rider from command line and open the current Unreal Project.

Why

Like Android Studio with it's studio and Visual Studio Code with code we want to be able to just type rider in a folder and have it do the right thing.

If you run this command from a directory with at least one MyUnrealProject.uproject file it will open the first one it finds using the version of Rider installed in your Mac /Applications folder.

To install

• Ensure you have a bash shell (or prepare to modify per platforms below)
• Right click raw button and download
• Make executable

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/rider

• Copy or move to somewhere in your path

sudo mv ~/Downloads/rider.txt /usr/local/bin/rider

Platforms

Would probably work for other bash shells like Linux, or WSL or mingw if you change the command to open rider on lines 4 and 11.

Would probably work for shells that don't use (( ... )) for math expansion like bash does if the test for array empty on line 10 is changed. YMMV.

Changes

20/6/25 - fixed to handle passing a file name, and if there is no file name try to open the uproject file

rider

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$#" -ne 0 ]; then
    open -na "Rider.app" --args "$@"
fi;

shopt -s nullglob
PROJ=(*.uproject)

if (( ${#PROJ[@]} > 0 )); then
    open -na "Rider.app" --args "${PROJ[0]}";
fi;