Make "xdg-open" the default action when X bit isn't set

Virchanza · 11-27-2011, 04:33 PM

Let's say you have a PDF file in your home folder. You can use "xdg-open" to use the default application to open it, like this:

Code:

xdg-open ./monkey.pdf

If I try to just execute the PDF in the same fashion as an executable file, then I get this:

Code:

$ ./monkey.pdf
bash: ./monkey.pdf: Permission denied

I wonder...... if....... there's any way to configure the terminal so that it gives special treatment to non-exectuable files?? For instance, I want to be able to just type the following:

Code:

./monkey.pdf

and have it behave as though I wrote:

Code:

xdg-open ./monkey.pdf

Any ideas?

jthill · 11-27-2011, 05:08 PM

I just do

Code:

open() { command xdg-open "$@" & }

in my .bashrc and leave it at that.