osx-like "open" in ubuntu/gnome

[Erik Christiansen]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:16:45PM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:36:44 +0200
> Johannes Behr <johannes.behr at igd.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a similar tool in ubuntu/gnome:  I just would like to type
> > 
> >      open foo.pdf
> > 
> > and evince (or whatever is registered as default app) opens the pdf- 
> > file.
> 
> gnome-open foo.pdf

The existing (On ubuntu 5.10)

/usr/bin/open: symbolic link to `openvt'

doesn't look particularly useful, so Johannes' "open" idiom can easily
be regained. It certainly beats what I've been using:

voc is aliased to `ooff2 calc   '
vod is aliased to `ooff2 draw   '
vow is aliased to `ooff2 writer '

(Except that omission of a filename argument starts a new document of
the appropriate type.)

Has anyone seen a manpage for gnome-open lurking anywhere? (If I'm to
move over to a more conventional idiom, it would need to be sufficiently
a convention that its status has moved from binary-without-manpage. ;)

Erik