NAME

Desktop::Open - Open a file or URL in the user's preferred application

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of Desktop::Open (from Perl distribution Desktop-Open), released on 2021-07-05.

SYNOPSIS

use Desktop::Open qw(open_desktop);
my $ok = open_desktop($path_or_url);
# !defined($ok);       no recognized command found
# $ok == 0;            command found and executed
# $ok != 0;            command found, error while executing

DESCRIPTION

This module tries to open specified file or URL in the user's preferred application. Here's how it does it.

1. If on Windows, use "start". If on other OS, use "xdg-open" if available.

2. If #1 fails, resort to using Browser::Open's open_browser. Return its return value. An exception is if #1 fails with "file/URL does not exist" error, in which case we give up immediately.

TODO: On OSX, use "openit". Any taker?

FUNCTIONS

open_desktop

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Desktop-Open.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Desktop-Open.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Desktop-Open

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Browser::Open, on which our module is modelled upon.

Open::This also tries to do "The Right Thing" when opening files, but it's heavily towards text editor and git/GitHub.

App::Open and its CLI openit also attempt to open file using appropriate file. It requires setting up a configuration file to run.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.