CLI universal opener

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linux • cli • productivity

Install 

sudo pacman -S xdg-utils

Use 

xdg-open path/to/file/or/direcotry

But typing xdg-open is hard, shorten it with:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/xdg-open /usr/bin/open

Why this is not set up like so by default is beyond me…