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Is there a way to open a file browser window (in KDE or GNOME or some desktop environment) for a directory while your navigating directories from the terminal?

Text editors that have a GUI will open up when I run them via the command line; I just wanted to do that for certain directories when I'm roaming around.

Dave M
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In Gnome you can do

nautilus . &

The dot means current directory, and the & runs the process in the background so you can continue to use your terminal (and ctrl+c won't kill the browser).

Dentrasi
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    Just to help search engine users: if you're using Ubuntu, this probably applies to you. – Nathan Long Aug 10 '10 at 17:56
  • It just works. Thanks. But remembering nautilus . is huge. So I added an alias in my .bashrc to alias open='nautilus .'.. Simple to remember. :) – Ashwin Oct 03 '13 at 06:49
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    if you want a solution that works with other desktop environments besides Gnome, use xdg-open as mentioned in other answers. – Alexander Taylor Jan 25 '14 at 22:43
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xdg-open . This alone should do the trick if you want to open the current directory, else try xdg-open /path.

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xdg-open my_dir
Matthew Flaschen
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Open current directory: open .

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