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m_abs Registered Member Posts 6 Karma 0 OS	open command Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:05 pm One of the minor features I really liked back then I used OSX was the "open" command, which let me open files from the terminal in the default application like this: # open stuff.pdf Which would open the file stuff.pdf in OSX' PDF viewer. Or if I'd like to play a mp3-file # open "white and nerdy.mp3" Which would open the mp3-file in iTunes. I'd really lkke build-in command what would do the same in KDE4.
bcooksley Administrator Posts 19765 Karma 87 OS	RE: open command Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:23 pm You can use either of the following two commands to achieve this: kfmclient xdg-open KDE Sysadmin [img]content/bcooksley_sig.png[/img]
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	open command Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:57 pm kde-open will do this as well. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965