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| 1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859
-1"><title>xdg-open</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Styleshee
ts V1.69.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840
084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="xdg-open"></a><div
class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>xdg-open —
; opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application</p></div><div class="r
efsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command
">xdg-open</code> { <code class="option"><em class="replaceable"><code>file</co
de></em></code> | <code class="option"><em class="replaceable"><code>URL</cod
e></em></code> }</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">xdg-
open</code> { <code class="option">--help</code> | <code class="option">--ma
nual</code> | <code class="option">--version</code> }</p></div></div><div cla
ss="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> |
| 2 xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. |
| 3 If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred |
| 4 web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the |
| 5 preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports |
| 6 file, ftp, http and https URLs. |
| 7 </p><p> |
| 8 xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. |
| 9 It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root. |
| 10 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="options"></a><h2>Options<
/h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--
help</code></span></dt><dd> |
| 11 Show command synopsis. |
| 12 </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--manual</code></span
></dt><dd> |
| 13 Show this manualpage. |
| 14 </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--version</code></spa
n></dt><dd> |
| 15 Show the xdg-utils version information. |
| 16 </dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="exitcod
es"></a><h2>Exit Codes</h2><p> |
| 17 An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code |
| 18 indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned: |
| 19 </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="option
">1</code></span></dt><dd> |
| 20 Error in command line syntax. |
| 21 </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">2</code></span></dt><
dd> |
| 22 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist. |
| 23 </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">3</code></span></dt><
dd> |
| 24 A required tool could not be found. |
| 25 </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">4</code></span></dt><
dd> |
| 26 The action failed. |
| 27 </dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="example
s"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p> |
| 28 </p><pre class="programlisting"> |
| 29 xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/' |
| 30 </pre><p> |
| 31 Opens the Freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser |
| 32 </p><p> |
| 33 </p><pre class="programlisting"> |
| 34 xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png |
| 35 </pre><p> |
| 36 Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image |
| 37 viewing application. |
| 38 </p></div></div></body></html> |
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