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xdg-open

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

Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers <[email protected]>
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/
Section: utils

All systems: curl cmd.cat/xdg-open.sh
Debian: apt-get install xdg-utils
Ubuntu: apt-get install xdg-utils
Alpine: apk add xdg-utils
Arch Linux: pacman -S xdg-utils
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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