Nifty terminal command: xdg-open
Just sharing something neat I learned today about Linux…
In Windows, I used to do this a lot:
– Be at a command prompt, in some directory, e.g.: C:\my files\more files
– When I need to see that same folder in the Windows GUI, I’d type: start . (note the period, meaning “this directory”)
– The Windows file manager would open in a new window, focused on that same folder as the path.
I realized today I didn’t know how to do that in Linux (I’m on Ubuntu) so I searched around and found the xdg-open command.
The man page for xdg-open says:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user’s preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user’s preferred web browser.
At any terminal prompt, I type something like:
xdg-open .
or xdg-open ~/Documents
And boom! A new KDE Dolphin files window appears, focused on that path.
or this works too, but with a browser:
xdg-open http://eff.org
Rock and/or roll!
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