I am having trouble opening a file

[Socrates440]

I am trying to open a file with libre office in the terminal (I would like to be able to do this in the terminal) and I am having some trouble doing it.

I am typing

libreofficewriter <filelocation>

I have tried several different varriations on libre office writer. I also tried searching for libreoffice as root and as my nonroot user to find out exactly what I was supposed to type to envoke libreofficewriter but I couldn't find it as either. I also tried typing libreoffice.


Here is the version of libreoffice that I am using.
LibreOffice 3.4.5

For the record, I did try gedit and gedit was unable to deal with the document. It just displayed a bunch of random characters.

[pjoh]

on mine (F17 -LibreOffice 3.5 ) its just
libreoffice filename
seems to use writer, calc, etc based on file being opened

[Colors]

$ oowriter path_to_file_name

[marriedto51]

If you want a specific LibreOffice component, you can provide it as an option like this:

libreoffice -writer filename.odt

As a nice trick, to open a file using your default associated application, try

xdg-open filename