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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 06:39:33 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Open the current directory (or '/etc/') in the default file explorer in #Linux using the CLI
   xdg-open .
   xdg-open /etc/

   Open a URL in the default browser:
   xdg-open 'https://nixcraft.com

   Open an image in the default image viewer:
   xdg-open ~/Download/foo.png

   Open a PDF in the default PDF viewer:
   xdg-open /tmp/bar.pdf

   Open a MP3 in the default MUSIC player:
   xdg-open /tmp/bar.pdf

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 06:43:46 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft Ahh bar.pdf... my fav music.

     Jokes aside, I didn't know I don't need to type 'nohup evince some.pdf >/dev/null 2>&1 &' every time I open a PDF from a command line.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 06:45:52 JST nixCraft 🐧

     in reply to

     • Freevolt

     @freevolt24 ah, so people read. LOL

   • hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:14:58 JST hdante

     in reply to

     @nixCraft alias open=xdg-open

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 08:21:54 JST MegatronicThronBanks

     in reply to

     @nixCraft When it works.