docx file (MS Word), it opens LibreOffice Writer for it. If I open a Jpeg, it launches a GUI for Xviewer for that file instead.
It even changes their Mime type, and does syntax colouring, if I save or reload the file. I can run xdg-open with other files from the list, and it opens them as additional tabs in the same GUI. It has a tab for the file, and if I hover over that it says it has a Mime type of plain text document with UTF-8 encoding. When I run xdg-open UL_hSort.txt, the command prompt comes straight back, but it launches an independent GUI for an editor called Xed. Xfers: broken symbolic link to /media/paul/0C6E70246E7008AA/Users/Paul/Downloads The head command can be used to open the file. Linux open file in console 13:38 Linux open file in console 13:38. File extensions with gnome-open can be used to open it. sed -i.bak ( ): sed -i.bak '/line of text/d', bash: for file in. Using a more powerful command, you can open the file. The command below can be used to open the file. Wdog: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/l, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID=9a15a7ca3bb94aed54a7a14fb9a11a2dd87d8baa, not stripped How Do You Open A File In Linux Use the cat command to begin opening the file. Primes: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable The "file" command says this about the files in my home directory: Paul-) file * > file.txtīox: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executableįoo.txt: ASCII text, with escape sequences
However, some tools (launch menus, and xdg-open included) use additional hints to identify specific file types. Linux does have a system based on analysing the first few bytes of a file ("magic" numbers) because many well-defined formats (executable binary, compressed files, database tables) conform to standards. My comment above about extensions is incomplete.