Manual: mimeopen

MIMEOPEN(1p)				     User Contributed Perl Documentation				MIMEOPEN(1p)

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 freedesktop 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
       If     you     find     bugs,	 please	    file     them     in     our      Github	  issue	     tracker	  at
       .

       See File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) and File::DesktopEntry(3) for some limitations.

AUTHOR
       Jaap Karssenberg  Maintained by Michiel Beijen 

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)

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