I found a sweet tutorial this morning that I really wanted to share with the rest of you. gnome-open, shared by the ubuntonista, is a sweet little command that auto-associates whatever you’re trying to do with the proper file/mime type. From what I see it resembles the universal “open” command on OSX. Here are a few examples of how you can use gnome-open:
To quickly visit google.com:
gnome-open google.com
To shoot off an email to someone:
gnome-open mailto:[email protected]
To quickly open a location in Nautilus:
gnome-open ~/my-folder
Open a document with:
gnome-open document.odf
…and I think you get the idea. gnome-open will open anything for you with the right program. Gotta love that.
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