I've found the 'open' command in Mac OS X very handy in the command line. From 'man open': The open command opens a file (or a directory or URL), just as if you had double-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is specified, the default application as determined via LaunchServices is used to open the specified files. That is, if I want to open a PDF file with the default PDF viewer (happens to be Preview), I only need to do: open my.pdf In Linux, however, to open a PDF file from the command line, I had to dig around to find the default PDF viewer is, for instance, 'evince' (who'd have guessed??), and then evince my.pdf So, is there a simple equivalent of the 'open' command in the Linux command line?

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@MaxNanasy: output is from applications, it is not xdg-open's fault if they are chatty. And suppressing such messages should be user's choice, not xdg's. So it is a void complain to ask for something 'better' than xdg-open.

Also, if Mac's open has no option to output those messages, I'd say that openis much worse than xdg-open, since when you use command line to launch files you're usually interested in that output (otherwise, why not simply double-clicking the file in a browser like Nautilus?) – Nov 16 '12 at 5:32 •. The equivalent you are looking for is, which can be used in the same way as OS X's open command. For example: xdg-open ~/Documents/Chubby_Bubbies.odt However, this is really hard to type quickly and accurately. Instead, you should make an alias to xdg-open, which makes the process much quicker. Of course, you can alias it to open to make it match OS X (you can pick anything you want), but personally, I use the right square bracket ( ]) for my shortcut for speed reasons. To use this, add the following to your.bashrc file: alias ']'='xdg-open' Then, to open any resource, use it like any of these examples: ] www.google.com ] file.txt ] ~/Pictures ] ssh://myserver.local/home/jeremy Also this lets you open a file browser (e.g. Nautilus) in the current directory: ].

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From experience I have found that one-letter aliases work best for the above shortcut. After all, the goal is efficiency. And you can go back and make the same alias on OS X — I leave that as an exercise to the reader.:-). I just sorted this out myself so thought I would write down how I did it, which is specifically relevant to what Suan asked. These steps allow you just type 'open ' and not your terminal covered in messages you don't need: Create a script called open in ~/bin, the content is just: xdg-open '$1' &> /dev/null & Save and close the script, then type 'source.profile' (or.bash_profile if relevant). Thats it so typing 'open Music' will open your music folder in the nautilus GUI and shouldn't enter anything onto your terminal.

Regardless which OS you are using, the file manager is one of the most important app that you have to use everyday. Without a file manager, you won’t be able to find and open files, or even move them to another location. In Linux, there are plenty of file manager applications that you can use. Nautilus for Gnome, Thunar for XFCE, Dolphin for KDE and PCman for those who prefer something light. Marlin is a new GTK3-based file manager for Linux, and it looks pretty slick and fast. Installation On Ubuntu, you can install via the following PPA. Sudo apt-get install marlin-plugin-dropbox marlin-plugin-ubuntuone Once installed, you can right click on any folder and select “Open with Marlin File Manager”.