Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

Tommy Nordgren tommy.nordgren at comhem.se
Wed Aug 22 07:41:24 EDT 2007


On 22 aug 2007, at 12.04, Peter Otten wrote:

> Tim Golden wrote:
>
>> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>>> How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double  
>>> clicking (in
>>> Windows) on a file?
>>>
>>> In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the
>>> application that is registered for it.
>
>> os.startfile
>
> Unfortunately this is Windows-only.
> For KDE you can use
>
> $ kfmclient exec yourfile
>
> Peter
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	On Mac OS X, invoke the command /usr/bin/open -a <Application>  
file , or /usr/bin/open file
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Tommy Nordgren
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