Newbie: opening files form the command line

[Yang Xiao]

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 On 10/3/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Although I have been using Fedora for almost a year now, I have had
> little reason to get too familiar with the command line. Noe that I
> feel like expanding my knowedge, I am trying to get used to the
> command line.
>
> When I do ls, I can see a list of files. If there is a file, say
> phonenumbers.xls, that I want to open, but do not know what program
> opens it, how can I do the equivelent of clicking on it, so that it
> opens in the default program for it's type? Even for files that I do
> know what program to use, it would make life easier. Thanks all in
> advance for your replies.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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