Opening a file "the desktop way" via the command line

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

Is there a way to do this? What I have in mind is a command with
functionality similar to the ones of gmc --view and gmc --edit, but that
will execute the "Open" action rather than "View" or "Edit".
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