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[ILUG] equivalent to windows start command..

[ILUG] equivalent to windows start command..

Dave Airlie airlied at linux.ie
Tue May 11 03:25:43 IST 2004


I remember in a WinNT DOS box you could go start hello.doc and it would
open hello.doc in word (or whatever you assigned .doc to)...

Is there a simple command line utility for Linux to do this? I do start
x.pdf and it starts my pdf viewer whatever it may be etc..

I know I can use nautilus to click through but every so often I just want
to open a document and not wonder what app I need to use :-)

Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person




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