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Old 02-02-2013, 04:24 PM   #1
mahkoe
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open list of files with xdg-open


I have a fancy sed command in a bash script that, depending on command parameters, returns a list of files separated by a newline. I would like to use xdg-open to open all the files, but xdg-open can apparently only take one file at a time. I am pretty new at bash scripting, so I was wondering if anyone has a way getting around this problem and opening all the files with xdg-open

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Old 02-03-2013, 11:48 AM   #2
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Sure:

Code:
fancy_sed_command | while read line; do
    xdg-open $line
done
or

Code:
fancy_sed_command | while read line; do
    xdg-open $line &
done
if you want them all opened at the same time, not one by one

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