mimelist

Discover and choose default XDG MIME applications

Quickstart

curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taylorskalyo/mimelist/master/mimelist"
chmod +x mimelist

./mimelist --help

Examples

List applications that can open the file README.md.

$ ./mimelist README.md
MimeType: text/plain

Flags   Application  GenericName  Exec
-T----  nvim         Text Editor  nvim %F

Choose nvim as the default handler for files like README.md.

$ ./mimelist README.md -s nvim
MimeType: text/plain

Flags   Application  GenericName  Exec
*T----  nvim         Text Editor  nvim %F

Choose which columns are displayed. Any recognized desktop entry key can be used as a column.

$ ./mimelist README.md -c "Default,Name,Categories,Keywords,Terminal,Comment"
MimeType: text/plain

Default  Name    Categories           Keywords      Terminal  Comment
true     Neovim  Utility;TextEditor;  Text;editor;  true      Edit text files