Re: Equivalent of MS DOS "start" command.
- From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Equivalent of MS DOS "start" command.
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:42:21 -0500
On 03/03/2011 08:36 AM, Vernon Cole wrote:
In gnome, I can click on a file and the correct application to open it
will be started.
� In Windows, I can get the same functionality from the command line by
typing "start (somefilename)"
� I can't seen to find an equivalent feature in Linux, so am beginning
to suspect that it is gnome matching up the file with its application.
� If I were to start writing such a utility, where would I find sample
code how the GUI does it? Or is there already a POSIX command and I've
never run across it?
� (What I'm actually trying to do is implement Python "os.startfile" on
Linux.)
Try:
xdg-open yourfile
- Mike
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