How to open a file when shell scripting?

[Smythotech]

Hey everyone,

I just got back into shell scripting and am just making a program for fun. I'm using the terminal in Ubuntu 12.10 and am making a shell script.

Now what I want to do is open a file that is the Documents directory. It's a video file that I want to pop up at the end of the script.

So how would i declare that in the script?

I was thinking something as simple as:

sudo open Sample.Avi /documents

But that didn't work. Any ideas, or is this even possible?

[newbie-user]

You'd have to specify what program to use to open the video. Here's a quick script that will do what you want. It uses Totem to open the sample.avi file in the location /home/[user]/Documents/. Just copy the second line into whatever script you're writing.


#!/bin/bash

totem /home/[user]/Documents/sample.avi

[Vaphell]

you can try using xdg-open
it should call appropriate program based on the file type.


xdg-open some.file

[Smythotech]

You'd have to specify what program to use to open the video. Here's a quick script that will do what you want. It uses Totem to open the sample.avi file in the location /home/[user]/Documents/. Just copy the second line into whatever script you're writing.


#!/bin/bash

totem /home/[user]/Documents/sample.avi

Thank you very much, kind sir!

Worked like a charm!