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How to open the hosts file for editing in Linux The first thing to do is open the hosts file for editing. We’re going to do this from the command line, so either log into your Linux server or ...

You can use the xdg-open command in desktop environments to open media files. For example, if you want to open a PDF file, type: xdg-open . my-pdf.pdf. If you have an image file, type: xdg-open ...

Since Ubuntu is a Linux operating system, you can bypass the graphical user interface entirely and open your PDF files from the command line. By default, Ubuntu uses the Gnome application Evince ...