Question regarding terminal in GNOME

[DynamicBison]

I started using Linux Mint (GNOME) about a month ago, and I think it's awesome.

Coming from Windows, Linux Mint will definitely take some time to get use to, but I am having fun along the way. I'm trying to use terminal as much as possible, and I have one question. Let's say I save file foobar with OpenOffice. If I try to open foobar in terminal using gnome-open or xdg-open, it will open up in OpenOffice, right? No problems there. However, what if I want to open it in gedit? I know I could easily do this using Nautilus but is there a way to do this in terminal as well?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-DB

[randomizer]

You simply call the application you want to open it with and pass the filename (and path if it's not in the current working directory) to the application as an argument.

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gedit path/to/file

Done Of course you must ensure you use "sudo" where appropriate or the file will be readonly. Also, if you use ctrl+c in the same Terminal tab it will force kill the application and you will use any unsaved data.

[zengeek]

Dammit,
Thats the one thing i DO know how to do.
I totally wanted to help someone...

Oh, well, next time...

PS. you can also open muliple files with the one command

gedit text1.txt text2.txt

you can probably do it with full path as well if you're not in the right directory.

[eiver]

Or if you are already in the same directory as the file, you can skip the path and write just the file as argument (gedit foobar.odt)
Of course you will see that gedit fails to display open office files, bacause it was designed to open plain text files only - it doesn't know which encoding to use. To open ANY file and see its contents you can use for example Bless hex editor (which can be installed through Software Manager or Synaptic).

[DynamicBison]

Thank you for your quick replies everyone! I've learned a lot.