bin/xdg-openhack

#!/usr/bin/env sh
#
# pbrisbin 2013 - open files with the appropriate handler program.
#
###
read_mime() {
  local file="$1"

  xdg-mime query filetype "$file" 2>/dev/null | cut -d ';' -f 1
}

handle_archive() {
  local archive="$1" directory="${1}_extracted"

  mkdir -p "$directory" && cd "$directory" &&
    archive -x "$archive" && NOCD=1 exec urxvtc -cd "$directory"
}

[ $# -eq 0 ] && exit 1

if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
  # Assume non-files are URLs
  exec $BROWSER "$1"
fi

mimetype="$(read_mime "$1")" || mimetype='text/html'

case "$mimetype" in
  text/html)       $BROWSER "$1"      ;;
  application/pdf) exec zathura "$1"  ;;
  application/ogg) exec mplayer "$1"  ;;
  audio/*|video/*) exec mplayer "$1"  ;;
  image/*)         exec mirage  "$1"  ;;
  text/*)          exec urxvtc -e vim "$1" ;;
  application/x-gzip|application/x-rar-compressed|application/zip)
    handle_archive "$1"
    ;;
esac