

Launching CoRD from the command line this way causes a fresh instance of CoRD to be opened. Applications/CoRD.app/Contents/MacOS/CoRD -host -port 3389 -u username Passwords with any special characters in them, :, &, etc need to be encoded according to the URL Encoding FormatĬoRD supports the following command line options: -host -port -u -d -p -a set screen depth -width set screen resolution width -height set screen resolution height Colons (:) can be used in place of ampersands for the same effect, without needing to be escaped. Open using ampersands (&) from the command line, they have to be escaped with a backslash ().
#Command line for mac free
But the free and most excellent CoRD remote desktop client does handle rdp:// links which would let you call it from a launcher of your choice or even via open on the command line.

There is no command line access for the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client.
