There's no Place Like ::1

Woke up, opened Liferea (Linux Feed Reader), went to the “OSnews” feed, and a lot of G suprises!

• Gnome 2.22 Released (link)

• GCC 4.3.0 Released (link)

• GTK 3.0 Getting Serious (link)

I should wake later in the morning more often :-)

If you ever wonder why MacOS users have a nice little command-line application called “open” to open an arbitrary file with the correct application, and you – a proud Linux user – don’t, you have come to the right place :)

If you use GNOME (KDE sucks :P) you probably have a nice little command-line application called “gnome-open”.

It does exactly what you are thinking. It find the mime-type of the file you pass as a parameter and use the GNOME configured application for that mime-type.

Since I am lazy (and probably you too) don’t forget to put this on your .bashrc (or equivalent):

alias open="gnome-open" 
alias o="gnome-open" 

Have fun with your console!

^{(Probably KDE (and others) have a similar application)}