OPEN(1)

NAME
open - Open and edit files with their registered handlers

SYNOPSIS

open [-m mime type] [-a action] file...

open -t file...

DESCRIPTION

open automatically chooses the registered handler to open one or more files from the command line interface. To do so, it attempts to guess the MIME type of each file listed.

OPTIONS

The following options are available:

-a
    Action to call. The default is "open".

-m
    MIME type to force. The default behavior is to determine the MIME type according to the respective file extension.

-t
    Detect the type of the files listed.

BUGS

Issues can be listed and reported at https://www.defora.org/os/project/bug_list/230/Browser.

SEE ALSO

browser(1), copy(1), delete(1), desktop(1), desktopctl(1), move(1), properties(1), view(1)

AUTHOR

Pierre Pronchery <khorben@defora.org>
    Code and documentation.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Pierre Pronchery <khorben@defora.org>

This manual page was written for the DeforaOS project (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.