xdg-open

Open a file or URL in the user’s preferred application. More information: https://portland.freedesktop.org/doc/xdg-open.html.

• Open the current directory in the default file explorer:

xdg-open .

• Open a URL in the default browser:

xdg-open https://example.com

• Open an image in the default image viewer:

xdg-open path/to/image

• Open a PDF in the default PDF viewer:

xdg-open path/to/pdf

• Display help:

xdg-open --help