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Rushikesh
Rushikesh

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Open File manager in Linux from terminal without knowing its name

use command xdg-open to open the file manager directly from terminal.

If you dont know the file manager name then run the command as sudo
ex: sudo xdg-open .

It is a nice hack to know the name of default file manager directly from terminal.

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