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What is a current replacement of gnome-open command (generic open of files based on the type)?

Before: 

gnome-open mydoc.pdf  # opened PDF in default application

Now:

gnome-open
The program 'gnome-open' is currently not installed.  You can install
it by typing: sudo apt-get install libgnome2-0
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You can use xdg-open to open documents, like so:

xdg-open mydoc.pdf

This has a bonus of being desktop agnostic so it should work regardless of what desktop the user has installed. In GNOME itself gnome-open has been replaced by gvfs-open.

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    As of Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark, gvfs-open prints a deprecation warning to use gio open instead.
    – clpo13
    Mar 5, 2018 at 23:47
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You can use gio too. For example gio open notes.doc.

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  • Interesting, GIO seems to be a very strange thing. I wonder what can be useful for, other than "open".
    – alfC
    Apr 3, 2018 at 3:38

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