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MIMEOPEN(1)	      User Contributed Perl Documentation	   MIMEOPEN(1)

NAME
       mimeopen - Open files by mimetype

SYNOPSIS
       mimeopen [options] [-] files

DESCRIPTION
       This script tries to determine the mimetype of a file and open it with
       the default desktop application. If no default application is
       configured the user is prompted with an "open with" menu in the
       terminal.

       To use this script you need the freedestop mime-info database and the
       freedesktop desktop-file-utils package. See
       File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) for more details.

OPTIONS
       -a, --ask
	   Do not execute the default application but ask which application to
	   run.	 This does not change the default application.

       -d, --ask-default
	   Let the user choose a new default program for given files.

       -n, --no-ask
	   Don't ask the user which program to use. Choose the default program
	   or the first program known to handle the file mimetype. This does
	   not set the default application.

       -M, --magic-only
	   Do not check for extensions, globs or inode type, only look at the
	   content of the file. This is particularly useful if for some reason
	   you don't trust the name or the extension a file has.

       --database=mimedir:mimedir:...
	   Force the program to look in these directories for the shared mime-
	   info database. The directories specified by the basedir
	   specification are ignored.

       -D, --debug
	   Print debug information about how the mimetype was determined.

       -h, --help
       -u, --usage
	   Print a help message and exits.

       -v, --version
	   Print the version of the program and exit.

DEPRECATED OPTIONS
       -L, --dereference
	   Follow symbolic links.  Deprecated because this is the logical
	   default for this command.  Ignored silently.

BUGS
       No known bugs, please mail the author if you find one.

       See File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) and File::DesktopEntry(3) for some
       limitations.

AUTHOR
       Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2002, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved.  This
       program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       mimetype(1), update-mime-database(1), update-desktop-database(1),
       File::MimeInfo(3), File::MimeInfo::Applications(3)

perl v5.18.1			  2013-10-08			   MIMEOPEN(1)
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