Newbie: opening files form the command line

[Toralf Lund]

Yang Xiao wrote:

> man file

Not sure that's really what he needs. I'd rather suggest doing

gnome-open phonenumbers.xls

(For the actual file open.) No manpage for this tool, I think, but it's 
probably described somewhere in the help system.

-T

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> On 10/3/05, *Dotan Cohen* <dotancohen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dotancohen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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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