Random Wisdom » gnome-open http://scrolls.mafgani.net An attempt at organizing my thoughts ... Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:54:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Open files from a terminal http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/10/open-files-from-a-terminal/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/10/open-files-from-a-terminal/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:48:00 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=23 There’s lot that can be learned from the conversations on the fedora-list. Today I learnt of a nifty little tool called gnome-open. Basically you just type something like:

[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ gnome-open file.cpp

and voila! It figures out the default application (under GNOME) for the files of type *.cpp and opens the file using that default editor. I haven’t verified, but it seems that instead of a file an URL can also be specified. Mmm .. it definitely creates the possibility of writing portable scripts; at least on GNOME systems anyway :)

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