View source for Generating all xdg-mime commands

This generates the xdg-mime commands for each .desktop files and all mimetypes they contain:<pre>
find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
  -iname '*.desktop' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' d; do
    for m in $(grep MimeType "$d" | cut -d= -f2 | tr ";" " "); do
        echo xdg-mime default "'${d##/*/}'" "'$m'"
    done
done
</pre>

Suggested on https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361705

For example to generate commands that make
* zathura
* geeqie
* nvim
* mpv
* onlyoffice-desktopeditors
* vifm
* qutebrowser
preferred applications, run<pre>
find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
  -iname '*.desktop' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' d; do
    for m in $(grep MimeType "$d" | cut -d= -f2 | tr ";" " "); do
        echo xdg-mime default "'${d##/*/}'" "'$m'"
    done
done | grep "geeqie\|mpv\|nvim\|onlyoffice-desktopeditors\|qutebrowser\|vifm\|zathura" \
| grep -v "zathura-pdf-poppler"
</pre>

[[Category: Linux]]