How can I find the application for a MIME type on linux? Is there a linux API that can find the default application for a MIME type? Then I can use this application to open a file. I can not use xdg-open(url) because the file format is a wrapper format and shared mime-type can only tell the wrapper MIME type. The embedded mime type can only be got from the wrapper file header. The process would be like: 1. find embedded mime type 2. mime-open(embedded mime type, url) Is it possible?

The `xdg-mime` command is used to query or set file associations.


jinx:735 Z$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
evince.desktop