[CentOS] Program that opens documents with their associated program
Steve Searle
steve at stevesearle.com
Wed Jun 20 22:17:38 UTC 2007
Around 11:00pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 (UK time), bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at scrawled:
>
> This may be a TOTALLY trivial question (and maybe inappropriate for
> this list), but I don't know where else to ask it:
>
> On my Mac I've got this wonderful command line utility that opens
> documents with the program that is associated to them in the Finder
> (the graphical file manager) like they were clicked in the
> file-manager. For instance: if I type
>
> open testdocument.doc
>
> it opens the file with Word or OpenOffice (whatever is associated with
> the document type .doc). This is quite convenient (don't have to leave
> the shell to open a document)
>
> My question: Is there a similar command on CentOS (or more specifially
> GNOME, because obviously it has to take the associations from some
> kind of GUI-filemanager)? I was looking around, but this is the kind
> of question where googling doesn't turn up anything useful unless you
> know the name of the command.
Yes - gnome-open
Steve
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