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Similar to macOS's open . command, and Windows 10's explorer.exe . command, I would like to be able to open Kubuntu's built in file-explorer from the terminal.

It looks like Dolphin is Kubuntu 20.04s file manager of choice. By running dolphin . I can open the file browser at the present working directory of my terminal, but the process stays open until I either close the file browser window, or cancel the process in the terminal (with ctrl + c).

Is there a way to open the pwd in the file browser in a single process that doesn't hang? I don't mind if the call is particularly long, since I'll likely create an alias for open, or something like that. Sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology here.

johnnymatthews
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Open it into the background with this:

dolphin . &

if you want it to completely detach and not send messages to the terminal then:

nohup dolphin . 2>&1 > /dev/null &

explaining this command by parts:

nohup -- don't kill this process if the terminal is closed.

dolphin -- the file browser


. -- the current directory


2>&1 -- redirect stderr to stdout


> /dev/null -- redirect stdout to the bitbucket
Captain Wasabi
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