I recently found 'gnome-open', which does this. It chooses the Gnome
default for the filetype. Like you clicked on it in nautilus. OS X also
has this 'open' command and i like it. :)
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"open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for
dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files.
Without open - or something like it - every time a user wants to look
at a file, they have to figure out what type the file is and which
application on their path ca