Implement `open`

[certik]

On macOS the open command uses the system-registered GUI program to open a given file. On Windows in WSL one can use explorer some.xls. On Linux there is also a way to do this.

So we can implement this support on all platforms and just call it open.

[wolfv]

Good idea! Although that starts to venture into "superset" territory.

[certik]

The open command could be a conda package. Then we are in the subset category again. :)

Alternatively we can only support it in interactive mode, I suspect I never used "open" in a script on macOS, only in interactive mode.

[wolfv]

On Linux it's usually xdg-open ... which is quite unintuitive.

[wolfv]

Ok, I have some more thoughts on this now.

Maybe we should create a "coreutils-ext" that contains some additional utilities such as:

• dl: download a file to stdio
• open: open a file (open/xdg-open/explorer.exe replacement)
• ...

That way, they could also be installed separately by users of bash/zsh and don't hinder compatibility concerns.

[prsabahrami]

Ok, I have some more thoughts on this now.

Maybe we should create a "coreutils-ext" that contains some additional utilities such as:

• dl: download a file to stdio

• open: open a file (open/xdg-open/explorer.exe replacement)

• ...

That way, they could also be installed separately by users of bash/zsh and don't hinder compatibility concerns.

I like this =))

[certik]

Yes, that's the way to do it. Anything we do must work in regular Bash and Zsh on Linux / macOS. Most of these things can be implemented as standalone programs.

[certik]

Maybe we should create a "coreutils-ext" that contains some additional utilities such as:

I made this #141.