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)