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Is there a way to open a file browser window (in KDE or GNOME or some desktop environment) for a directory while your navigating directories from the terminal?

Text editors that have a GUI will open up when I run them via the command line; I just wanted to do that for certain directories when I'm roaming around.

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xdg-open my_dir
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In Gnome you can do

nautilus . &

The dot means current directory, and the & runs the process in the background so you can continue to use your terminal (and ctrl+c won't kill the browser).

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Just to help search engine users: if you're using Ubuntu, this probably applies to you. – Nathan Long Aug 10 '10 at 17:56
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MacOS 10

Open current directory: open .

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