gnome-open: Open Anything from the Command Line December 16, 2006
Posted by Carthik in commands, gnome, guides, ubuntu.trackback
There is a command called gnome-open which I find very handy. I thought of sharing it with you, and was searching for documentation on it, and found none, neither on the web using google, nor on the system. No man page entry, or info entry. All the more reason I should document what I know about it.
Simply put, the command
gnome-open opens the item specified by the url with the preferred GNOME app for that file/mime-type.
In a sense, this command resembles the universal “open” command on Mac OSX.
Read on for examples…
Examples include:
gnome-open google.com
This will open the specified website in your preferred browser
gnome-open mailto:someone@example.com
This will start a new email to the specified address in your preferred mail client
gnome-open .
This will open the current directory you are in, using Nautilus
gnome-open ./Documents/
This will open the specified directory using Nautilus
gnome-open star.pdf
Will open star.pdf in Evince, or your preferred pdf reader
gnome-open foo.txt
Will open foo.txt in a text editor
This goes on, for all possible mime types.
For simplicity, i’ve put in my .bashrc:
alias g=’gnome-open’
So, to open current dir in nautilus: g .
I guess this is the program called by the “Run Application” dialog. I am always sticking URLs and file names and directory paths in there and it’s behaviour is similar.
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The alias should be:
alias g=’gnome-open’
Ok, my bad.
You probably pasted the good alias because mine didnt display properly neither :p
Now that was helpful, thanks a lot!
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Love these command line tips.
Thanks for sharing!
This is a good tip. Thanks. I’m surprised this isn’t documented anywhere else. I’m sure that wont last much longer.
Xfce 4.4 users can use exo-open in the same way.
xdg-open from Xdg-utils can also be used; it uses gnome-open in GNOME, exo-open in Xfce, and the corresponding method in KDE.
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html
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Good advice.
Thanks for such a nice tip! You’ve a very nice blog, keep it going!
One bug, try gnome-open gedit.desktop or any desktop file. It opens the desktop file in gedit.
What about the opposite?
There’s probably a way to do this, and I just don’t know it, but I frequently find that while I’m viewing files in nautilus that I want to perform some action on them which is easier from the command line (though there are new and cool tools all the time to make this less of a temptation, like SoundConvertor), and I wish I could hit a button somewhere on the navigation panel that would open the same directory in a terminal window. (Rather than — lazy me — starting a terminal and navigating to the same spot. Why be redundant? :))
Tim - the answer awaits you:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/how-to-restore-open-terminal-gnome-changes/
Wow, I’ve been looking for this command for ages. Thanks!
Ubuntonista:
Thanks! Perfect. Now to install it …
Tim
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That is one slick command. Thanks for posting it.
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anybody knows how to change the prefered application used by gnome-open?
EDIT: meaning through the command line , not through nautilus
This was all very nice. Worked to. Just one question:
Why did this appear?
warning - incompatible stripping characters and condition:
SFX D ar rar [^fmk]er
warning - incompatible stripping characters and condition:
SFX U �re orde ere
warning - incompatible stripping characters and condition:
SFX U �re ort ere
This is probably obvious to someone out there, but I find that the run dialog doesn’t recognize any aliases I have in my .bashrc… For example, I’ve got an alias for another terminal setup to be “cmd”, and when I’m in a terminal and type “cmd”, another terminal window pops up, just like I expected.
But when I type “cmd” in the Run Application Dialog, it doesn’t recognize the allias. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
Thanks for your information.
Really I struggled a lot before knowing this.
Now I came to know it from you how to open files from command window.
Thanks and regards.
Madhusudhana
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