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Re^3: Open a folder

by jethro (Monsignor)
on Mar 21, 2013 at 12:21 UTC ( [id://1024733]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Open a folder
in thread Open a folder

So your problem is to find a suitable file manager on any linux box.

It seems xdg-open will do what you want. On my machine it opens dolphin if I call "xdg-open ."

There also might be methods to find standard applications in window managers like gnome or kde, but I'm just guessing. Probably they just use xdg-open too

If nothing works you could have a list of filemanagers in your script that you simply check if they are installed.

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