XDG-OPEN(1) XDG-OPEN(1)
NAME
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
SYNOPSIS
xdg-open {file URL}
xdg-open {--help --manual --version}
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
--help Show command synopsis.
--manual
Show this manualpage.
--version
Show the xdg-utils version information.
EXIT CODES
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.
EXAMPLES
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.
AUTHOR
Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
<kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
<jwhite@codeweavers.com>
xdg-utils 1.0 06/24/2007 XDG-OPEN(1)