2006 Kevin Krammer

kevin.krammer@gmx.at

Jeremy White

jwhite@codeweavers.com

xdg-utils 1.0 xdg-open 1 xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application xdg-open file URL xdg-open --help --manual --version 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. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs. xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root. --help Show command synopsis. --manual Show this manualpage. --version Show the xdg-utils version information. An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned: 1 Error in command line syntax. 2 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist. 3 A required tool could not be found. 4 The action failed. xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/' Opens the Freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image viewing application.