“Couldn't find a file descriptor referring to the console” on Ubuntu bash on Windows

Question

I\'m new in here and it\'s my first post.

I have a problem with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. If I type \"open (filename)\" on Mac terminal, it opens the file with the

Answer 1

For linux, use xdg-open. open is for Mac OS. open in linux is an name alias of openvt (open virtual terminal).

To simplify it, you can append the following line to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc depends on the shell you are using.

alias o="xdg-open" # o stands for open 

Then next time you can just type like the following to reduce some keyboard strokes.

o file_name.pdf