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This generates the xdg-mime commands for each .desktop files and the mimetypes they contain:<pre>
This generates the xdg-mime commands for each .desktop files and all mimetypes they contain:<pre>
find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
   -iname '*.desktop' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' d; do
   -iname '*.desktop' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' d; do

Revision as of 18:05, 29 April 2018

This generates the xdg-mime commands for each .desktop files and all mimetypes they contain:

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

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