Comments on: Small things make yor life nicer

By: Zerny

Zerny — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:16:19 +0000

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

By: Simon Wunderlin

Simon Wunderlin — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:01:36 +0000

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)

By: omer

omer — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:20:18 +0000

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

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:41:39 +0000

“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?

By: koke

koke — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:35:39 +0000

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

By: Wout

Wout — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:30:52 +0000

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

By: koke

koke — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:43:00 +0000

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.