the "open" commend from OS X
 

Dear all,

in OS X I like the shell command "open" (in the man page it is noted that it would be a BSD command). This command opens files and directories by the default application. I would like to know whether there is a similar simple command I can use in Linux.

Thanks!
Pucicu

You could try gnome-open if your running gnome or xdg-open if not. I'm sure there's a KDE equivalent but I don't know what it is.

These are slightly clumsy so you could alias the command to something else. Open seems to be out because it used for legacy for openvt. You could use a right hand square bracket ']' which is dead easy to type.

Thanks so much! I'm now using gnome-open.