metashell - User Friendly Shell

[Sam Tygier]

Fergal Daly wrote:
> Seems like you could achieve much the same thing by having command
> (let's call it "o" for open so it's nice and short) that checks the
> mime-type of it's argument and opens it according to user preferences.

i have
alias o="gnome-open "
in my .bashrc

it does exactly that. it even works with directories. ie you can do

o .

and the current dir will open in nautilus.

sam