Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should...

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 17:56 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: 
> I found myself on a command line window, wanting to open a PDF, and I
> didnt remember the name of the pdf reader that now comes as a default
> install for Fedora. Too many years of "just installing Acrobat" left
> me with "./acroread whatever.pdf" engraved into my brain cells.
> 
> So.. I had to go to "add/remove programs" type "PDF" in the search
> field, and then wait as the program showed the name of the app:
> evince.
> 
> Now that's great. I now know its 'evince whatever.pdf'.
> 
> But that got me thinking. Shouldn't there be a "meta-command" like
> "open filename.whatever" that just seeks the default file association
> in gnome or whatever, and find the app name, and invoke the right app
> without the end user having to memorize the exact app name associated
> with any given file extension type?.
> 
> I'm not exceptionally bright, and my bright ideas more often than not
> tend to be ideas implemented ages ago... so I guess that utilty might
> exist already, no?
> 
> FC
If you display the file as a GUI icon inn your home file system. Start
at the Home icon (or computer icon) and go down to the file, clicking
will show you options for opening a pdf file. Although evince will do
that, acroread is  the adobe reader application.


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