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Having lived through the same frustrations I've released https://github.com/chmln/handlr a year ago. It comes with lots of nifty scripting tools and significant improvements over xdg-open

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How does it decide what mime-type a file has?

Doesn't seem like it does. You set it yourself.

It uses the shared mime database, which in turn relies on both file type and content to detect the mime.

Thanks - will look into that.

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