Re: Equivalent of MS DOS "start" command.

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

On 03/03/2011 08:36 AM, Vernon Cole wrote:
> In gnome, I can click on a file and the correct application to open it
> will be started.
> � In Windows, I can get the same functionality from the command line by
> typing "start (somefilename)"
> � I can't seen to find an equivalent feature in Linux, so am beginning
> to suspect that it is gnome matching up the file with its application.
> � If I were to start writing such a utility, where would I find sample
> code how the GUI does it? Or is there already a POSIX command and I've
> never run across it?
> � (What I'm actually trying to do is implement Python "os.startfile" on
> Linux.)

Try:

xdg-open yourfile

- Mike