xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
xdg-open {file | URL} xdg-open {--help | --manual | --version}
XDG-OPEN(1) xdg-open Manual 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 manual page. --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. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | desktop/xdg/xdg-utils | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO xdg-mime(1), xdg-settings(1), MIME applications associations specification[1] 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. AUTHORS Kevin Krammer Author. Jeremy White Author. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2006 NOTES 1. MIME applications associations specification http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-apps-spec/ Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg- utils/archive/v1.1.3.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg- utils/. xdg-utils 1.0 06/27/2022 XDG-OPEN(1)