<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Adam Glauser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adamglauser@gmail.com" target="_blank">adamglauser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Another thing 'start' does, IIRC, is to open a file with the associated program based on the file extension. So 'start workbook.xls' would launch Excel, opening that file. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The desktop environments I've used have some sort of file association list. I wonder if they also have an "open with the appropriate application" command? </p></blockquote><div><div>Previously, there were desktop-specific implementations: gnome-open, etc. Luckily, that is going away, and `xdg-open` is now the proper way to do this now. It also works for urls.<br>
<br>-- <br></div><div>Chris Irwin<br></div></div></div></div></div>