NAME¶
mimeopen - Open files by mimetype
SYNOPSIS¶
mimeopen [options] [-] files
DESCRIPTION¶
This script tries to determine the mimetype of a file and open it with the
default desktop application. If no default application is configured the user
is prompted with an "open with" menu in the terminal.
To use this script you need the freedestop mime-info database and the
freedesktop desktop-file-utils package. See
File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) for more details.
OPTIONS¶
- -a, --ask
- Do not execute the default application but ask which
application to run. This does not change the default application.
- -d, --ask-default
- Let the user choose a new default program for given
files.
- -n, --no-ask
- Don't ask the user which program to use. Choose the default
program or the first program known to handle the file mimetype. This does
not set the default application.
- -M, --magic-only
- Do not check for extensions, globs or inode type, only look
at the content of the file. This is particularly useful if for some reason
you don't trust the name or the extension a file has.
- --database=mimedir:mimedir:...
- Force the program to look in these directories for the
shared mime-info database. The directories specified by the basedir
specification are ignored.
- -D, --debug
- Print debug information about how the mimetype was
determined.
- -h, --help
- -u, --usage
- Print a help message and exits.
- -v, --version
- Print the version of the program and exit.
DEPRECATED OPTIONS¶
- -L, --dereference
- Follow symbolic links. Deprecated because this is the
logical default for this command. Ignored silently.
BUGS¶
No known bugs, please mail the author if you find one.
See
File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) and
File::DesktopEntry(3) for
some limitations.
AUTHOR¶
Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2002, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO¶
mimetype(1),
update-mime-database(1),
update-desktop-database(1),
File::MimeInfo(3),
File::MimeInfo::Applications(3)