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Launching your file manager from the command line avoiding the rubbish!

After spending years using weird magic spells to launch a graphical file manager (e.g. nautilus) from the command line without it printing a lot of rubbish, I finally learned that xdg-open just works!

Use xdg-open . and you will have your graphical file manager PLUS a clean terminal!