Inside the terminal, I could use the command 'explorer .' in Win32 or 'open .' in Mac to open GUI explorer/Finder.
What's the equivalent command in Ubuntu?
xdg-open .
will do what you want based on what is set as the default file manager, however since nautilus is the default I personally find it easier to autocomplete nautilus .
(Note that xdg-open is supposed to supercede gnome-open, as it's a Freedesktop.org solution that is cross-desktop and agreed upon instead of GNOME/KDE specific)
nautilus --browser
. I wonder if there is any functional difference with and without the --browser
argument.
gnome-open .
which will also default to nautilus for a directory.
sudo
, I'ld use sudo -- nautilus --no-desktop .
so that a new desktop is not created. If not, the desktop is messed up.
You may wish to give a chance to dolphin, which can be easily installed (if not already) by dropping the next line in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dolphin
Dolphin is more like a "Finder" and it features the sliding effect in the vertical columns when opening folders and some other useful features.
After installind (or if already installed) drop the next in a terminal, or [Alt][F2] in order to invoke the "Run application" box in order to enter the next command:
dolphin
And enjoy.
A screenshot is placed here for you to see dolphin in action.
I use mimeopen
and it works perfectly fine. Look at it's man page too, it has some handy options.
I have installed gvfs-bin to get the gvfs-open
command and then setup an alias in my ~/.bashrc
for open
so it works pretty much just like OS X. I can do open .
to open a nautilus window or open file
to open a file in the default program for that file.
On gnome (the ubuntu default) it's gnome-open
An improvement over this answer which gets rid of the noise from stderr and stdout:
open () {
nohup xdg-open $1 > /dev/null 2>&1
}