Running Mac apps from the Unix command line

I hope I don't offend Mac lovers with this question, but as a total Mac newbie, I find Finder cumbersome. This may change as I learn all the features and keyboard shortcuts. but I don't think so. I've been playing with computers for 40 years and Unix for 30 and I know what I like. I like a command line interface, and prefer to avoid the point and squint interface to the extent possible.
I'd prefer to run everything from the shell, and not finder. So to run safari, I'd like to do something intuitive (to me, at least) like type ...
bash# safari
... instead of marching around in Finder or using the dock and the mouse.
Can any of you Mac hackers give an old Unix hacker a pointer to a clue?

Yes, I'm way too cheap to buy the book. I can't imagine how much I've saved over the years, always being way too cheap to buy the book. Easily enough to pay for the spiffy new computer.
No Windoze experience? You may think you do, but really, you don't know how lucky you are. My Vaxen ran 4.1 BSD though 4.3 BSD. I've played with a lot of flavors of unix. My favorite flavor in recent years has been FreeBSD, so I began paying close attention to the Mac since OS X.
X11 and Xcode were the first things I installed. I've been poking around, reading the docs, and getting a better handle on it all. I've only scratched the surface of the stuff on your pages, and it's been most helpful. There's good stuff there for unix newbies too.
If it were not for Jerry Garcia, I probably never would have had the stones to open my mouth in front of a microphone.

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