The infamous open command

versaulis · 10-30-2008, 02:21 PM

Once upon a time, I was able to issue

Code:

open kwrite

from a terminal window and I would not have to close kwrite to continue using the terminal. I can't do that under Suse Enterprise. Anyone know where the source code is for it? It's really hard to find (try to google "linux open command").

pwc101 · 10-30-2008, 02:27 PM

I've never seen the open command, but you should just be able to background the process with an ampersand to continue using the terminal it was launched from:

Code:

kwrite &

Where did you use this open command? Which distro was it? It sounds like a distro-specific tool to me.

i92guboj · 10-30-2008, 02:31 PM

I've never seen an "open" command line tool either.

However the ampersand at the end should work.

versaulis · 10-30-2008, 02:32 PM

I think I used it in Fedora and Debian. Those were my favorite distros back when I used Linux as my primary OS.

versaulis · 10-30-2008, 04:12 PM

Looks like it was part of GNUstep, called open.app. Still exists in Debian.