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Programatically change which opens a file type

Hi there,

If we have 2 apps on our customers machines that can both open files of a certain file extension, is there any way via shell commands to set which application should be the default?

Essentially, I'm hoping to replicate Get Info > Open With > Change All, but using a script.

Thanks in advance!
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NAME

       mono-asp-apps - utility to manage ASP.NET 2.0 applications installed from RPMs

SYNOPSIS

       mono-asp-apps command [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  'mono-asp-apps'  command is useful on systems which install applications from RPM packages and when the RPM packages have been created
       according to the Mono RPM packaging guidelines for ASP.NET applications.

       The utility allows one to initialize, enable, disable and start installed applications.	Note that you do not use this  utility	to  manage
       applications hosted and managed by the Apache (or other) web server, only by xsp.

       Note  that  this  utility is useful only on systems where at least one application packaged according to the Mono ASP.NET 2.0 RPM packaging
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COMMANDS

       The commands which take an application name, require the it to be one of the registered names. See the `list` command below.

       init APPLICATION_NAME
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       enable APPLICATION_NAME
	      Enables APPLICATION_NAME for automatic start when XSP is started as part of the system bootup process.

       disable APPLICATION_NAME
	      Disables APPLICATION_NAME, so that it is not started automatically when XSP is started as part of the system bootup process.

       start APPLICATION_NAME [server_options]
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AUTHORS

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       xsp(1)

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