xdg-open

Opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. More information: <https://portland.freedesktop.org/doc/xdg-open.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xdg-open.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install xdg-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install xdg-utils
Alpine
apk add xdg-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xdg-utils
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install xdg-utils
CentOS
yum install xdg-utils
Fedora
dnf install xdg-utils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
Raspbian
apt-get install xdg-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/xdg-open
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/xdg-open xdg-open powered by Commando

Opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. More information: <https://portland.freedesktop.org/doc/xdg-open.html>.

  • Open the current directory in the default file explorer:
    xdg-open .
  • Open a URL in the default browser:
    xdg-open https://example.com
  • Open an image in the default image viewer:
    xdg-open path/to/image
  • Open a PDF in the default PDF viewer:
    xdg-open path/to/pdf
  • Display help:
    xdg-open --help

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