Command-line tool

duti

brew/duti

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Select default apps for documents and URL schemes on macOS

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install duti

Set Safari as the default handler for HTML documents

duti -s com.apple.Safari public.html all

Set VLC as the default viewer for files with `.m4v` extensions

duti -s org.videolan.vlc m4v viewer

Set Finder as the default handler for the ftp:// URL scheme

duti -s com.apple.Finder "ftp"

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