I would also be interested in an answer to this. I investigated this
last year and came to the conclusion that there is no generic answer and
that it probably depends on the actual Linux flavour that you use. I'd
be happy to be proved wrong!
For Ubuntu and Gnome I successfully used the following sentence to open
*.xls files in Open Office.
2!:0 'gnome-open ',fln
where 'fln' was the filename of my *.xls file.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oleg Kobchenko
> Sent: Monday, 28 January 2008 14:44
> To: Beta forum
> Subject: [Jbeta] Linux launcher
>
> Is there a commend-line launcher in Linux that
> will open default application for passed parameter
> depending on whether it is URL, file or folder and
> based on its extension or mime type.
>
> For example in Window there "start" and on Mac
> there is "open", which are equivalent of double-clicking
> the item in file explorer. For example,
>
> start d:\j602 - opens folder in explorer
> start d:\j602\bin\installer.txt - opens text editor
> start d:\j602\help.htm - opens web browser
> start http://jsoftware.com - opens web browser
>
>
>
>
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