How to Use the command line xdg-open in the GNU/Linux operating system to open a file in any format

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* Author: Samson
* Date: 04/07/2014
* Test platform:
* 3.11.0-12-generic # 19-Ubuntu
* GNU bash, version 4.2.45
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In GNU/Linux, when you need to open files of other formats, we usually go to the directory where the files are located and double-click to open the files, which affects efficiency. In fact, you can use the xdg-open command to open these format files, or even web pages, as simple as opening a file.

In GNU/Linux, you can use command lines to open text files, such as gedit, more, cat, vim, and less. However, when you need to open other format files, such as pdf, jpg, and mp3 files, we usually go to the directory where the files are located and double-click to open them, which affects efficiency. In fact, you can open these format files by running the xdg-open (opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application) command.

Xdg-open: the function is to open the file to be opened using the user's preferred application. If you want to open a jpeg file, you can use xdg-open fuckgfw.jpeg to open the jpeg file using the preferred (or understood as the default) application;

For more instructions, you can install the command line in the GNU/Linux release and run man xdg-open for more detailed instructions;


For more information about xdg-series command lines, refer:
Http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/