openfile(1)

openfile1

Open a file with xdg-open in a external program

Usage

openfile file

Overview

openfile helps open a file with xdg-open from mutt/neomutt in a external program without weird side effects.

It aims to be as simple and functional as possible for the user to associate a file extension with the program that will open it.

It is not necessary to configure a specific program for each extension in mutt/neomutt, because this association will come from your environment settings, controlled by xdg-open.

This program ends up not being exclusive to mutt/neomutt, it can be used by command line in a terminal by the user to open any file in its respective default program, just by using the command as described in the Synopsis field.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Author

openfile was written by Luke Smith <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Braulio Henrique Marques Souto <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From mutt-wizard 3.3.1-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.