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Linux: Open a file with the default application

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Henning Koch
March 02, 2016Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you are on a Linux shell and want to open a file with whatever default application is configured for that type, this often works:

xdg-open Quote.odt
xdg-open invoice.pdf
xdg-open index.html
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Make an alias so you have a simpler API (like Mac OS): alias open=xdg-open.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2016-03-02 15:37)