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alhelal
Asked: 2016-03-09 01:15:27 +0800 CST

How to open a PDF file in Ubuntu using terminal? [duplicate]

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I'm using this command: gnome-open file_name.xxx(xxx file extension) command but it's not working. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

14.04

1 Answers

  1. You could either try xdg-open (xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application):

    xdg-open /path/to/file.pdf

    Or you directly launch Evince, the default Ubuntu document viewer, and open the file with it:

    evince /path/to/file.pdf

    Note that you must always quote path names with special characters like spaces or colons - or escape each of those characters using a backslash:

    xdg-open '/path/with:some/special characters/strange filename.pdf'
xdg-open "/path/with:some/special characters/strange filename.pdf"
xdg-open /path/with\:some/special\ characters/strange\ filename.pdf'

evince '/path/with:some/special characters/strange filename.pdf'
evince "/path/with:some/special characters/strange filename.pdf"
evince /path/with\:some/special\ characters/strange\ filename.pdf'

    You may chose the variant you prefer.

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