gnome-open – the desktop swiss army knife : Ubuntu (6.10)

By | 2006/12/16

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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