A KDE equivalent to gnome-open

[Karl Klinger]

Michael wrote:
> "If you want to open up a file or folder using the default application
> from your terminal in ubuntu
> (or any linux distrib using gnome), just use gnome-open. Like this:
> 
> |gnome-open ~/docs/something.pdf|
> 
> Gnome will use it’s file association tables to open it in the correct
> application, and you won’t have
> to worry about remembering what your pdf viewer is called."
> 
> (Taken from
> http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/07/06/open-file-with-default-application-from-terminal-ubuntugnome/)
> 
> 
> Does KDE have anything similar to this?
> 
> Mike
> 

xdg-open seems to do what you want.

Karl