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7 Responses to “Small things make yor life nicer”

1. koke says:

   March 1, 2006 at 7:43 am

   After some time trying OSX, I noticed a small feature that I liked a lot. When you are in a terminal, you can use open foo/bar/file.ext to open it with the default application.

   Fortunately, this is not only an OSX feature. We have the same stuff, it’s called gnome-open and it has been there for a while.

   The problem is that gnome-open is too large as a shortcut for frequent use, so you can add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

   alias open='gnome-open'

   Warning: there is already a command called open, which is in fact a link to openvt. Please notice that this can affect some existing scripts.

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2. Wout says:

   March 1, 2006 at 8:30 am

   If you name the alias gopen there is no compatibility problem…

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3. koke says:

   March 1, 2006 at 9:35 am

   True, but open is shorter. In fact, I’m thinkin about calling the alias “@o@” for maximum performance

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4. Phil says:

   March 1, 2006 at 12:41 pm

   “o” seems the obvious choice to me too. I already use “n” for “nautilus .”, and that doesn’t cause any problems, because who else would go around relying on one letter commands?

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5. omer says:

   March 2, 2006 at 11:20 pm

   i aliased gnome-open for ‘go’, which is an acronym for gnome-open and kind a metaphore of the action itself.

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6. Simon Wunderlin says:

   March 5, 2006 at 3:01 am

   put it in ~/.profile and it is only available in interactive shell sessions. Other “scripts” would still use the “old” open command.

   PS: you shell must read .profile at startup, make sure to invoke it with the interactive flag (–login for bash)

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7. Zerny says:

   March 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm

   You could also use the existing command `see’ that uses your /etc/mailcap to find a program to view the file

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