Name
xdg-open — opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
Synopsis
xdg-open
{ --help
| --manual
| --version
}
Description
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.
If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred
web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the
preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports
file, ftp, http and https URLs.
xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only.
It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root.
Options
--help
-
Show command synopsis.
--manual
-
Show this manual page.
--version
-
Show the xdg-utils version information.
Exit Codes
An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code
indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
1
-
Error in command line syntax.
2
-
One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3
-
A required tool could not be found.
4
-
The action failed.
Examples
xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/'
Opens the freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser.
xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png
Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image
viewing application.