xdg-open
opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
Synopsis
xdg-open
{file | URL}
xdg-open
{--help | --manual |
--version}
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/'
Opens the Freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser
xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png
Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default
image viewing application.
source
urls xdg-open --from-xurls
description
xdg-open
opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If
a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's
preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will
be opened in the preferred application for files of that
type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https
URLs.
xdg-open
is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not
recommended to use xdg-open as root.
options
--help
Show command synopsis.
--manual
Show this manualpage.
--version
Show the xdg-utils
version information.
copyright
Copyright © 2006
exit codes
An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code
indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
1
Error in command line syntax.
2
One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3
A required tool could not be found.
4
The action failed.
authors
Kevin
Krammer
Author.
Jeremy
White
Author.