Command to open a URL?
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My question is pretty simple:
Is there a command I can use in bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
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My question is pretty simple:
Is there a command I can use in bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
command-line
edited Feb 20 '14 at 23:43
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up vote
36
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up vote
36
down vote
favorite
My question is pretty simple:
Is there a command I can use in bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
command-line
edited Feb 20 '14 at 23:43
Braiam
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asked Jan 3 '11 at 21:31
Nathan Osman
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My question is pretty simple:
Is there a command I can use in bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
command-line
command-line
edited Feb 20 '14 at 23:43
Braiam
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asked Jan 3 '11 at 21:31
Nathan Osman
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edited Feb 20 '14 at 23:43
Braiam
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edited Feb 20 '14 at 23:43
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Braiam
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asked Jan 3 '11 at 21:31
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There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
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You can use xdg-open like so:
xdg-open http://askubuntu.com/
From the XDG-OPEN man page:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a
URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser.
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
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gnome-open works as well as xdg-open but neither knows what to do with naked domain.
So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com.
Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name.
function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
Paste the above in your command line, hit enter and try it out. If you like it you can save it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file, then source ~/.bash_aliases (assuming it is in your home directory) and it will be persistent for that session and all new sessions.
So now we just type go askubuntu.com and wallah!
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
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answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
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Using x-www-browser URL will open the browser or a new tab at the given URL
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If you don't necessarily want to use the default browser, you can call any browser program directly and give the URL as argument, for example:
chromium-browser https://youtube.com
or
firefox https://youtube.com
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
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5 Answers
5
active
oldest
votes
5 Answers
5
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
50
down vote
accepted
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
add a comment |
up vote
50
down vote
accepted
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
add a comment |
up vote
50
down vote
accepted
up vote
50
down vote
accepted
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
edited Jan 7 '13 at 20:44
elias
987720
987720
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:32
Stefano Palazzo♦
62.1k33183216
62.1k33183216
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add a comment |
up vote
9
down vote
You can use xdg-open like so:
xdg-open http://askubuntu.com/
From the XDG-OPEN man page:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a
URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser.
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
add a comment |
up vote
9
down vote
You can use xdg-open like so:
xdg-open http://askubuntu.com/
From the XDG-OPEN man page:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a
URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser.
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
add a comment |
up vote
9
down vote
up vote
9
down vote
You can use xdg-open like so:
xdg-open http://askubuntu.com/
From the XDG-OPEN man page:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a
URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser.
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
You can use xdg-open like so:
xdg-open http://askubuntu.com/
From the XDG-OPEN man page:
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a
URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser.
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
edited Jan 3 '11 at 22:44
dv3500ea
28.5k1289143
28.5k1289143
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
answered Jan 3 '11 at 21:34
Marco Ceppi♦
36.7k24152190
36.7k24152190
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add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
gnome-open works as well as xdg-open but neither knows what to do with naked domain.
So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com.
Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name.
function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
Paste the above in your command line, hit enter and try it out. If you like it you can save it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file, then source ~/.bash_aliases (assuming it is in your home directory) and it will be persistent for that session and all new sessions.
So now we just type go askubuntu.com and wallah!
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
gnome-open works as well as xdg-open but neither knows what to do with naked domain.
So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com.
Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name.
function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
Paste the above in your command line, hit enter and try it out. If you like it you can save it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file, then source ~/.bash_aliases (assuming it is in your home directory) and it will be persistent for that session and all new sessions.
So now we just type go askubuntu.com and wallah!
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
gnome-open works as well as xdg-open but neither knows what to do with naked domain.
So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com.
Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name.
function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
Paste the above in your command line, hit enter and try it out. If you like it you can save it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file, then source ~/.bash_aliases (assuming it is in your home directory) and it will be persistent for that session and all new sessions.
So now we just type go askubuntu.com and wallah!
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
gnome-open works as well as xdg-open but neither knows what to do with naked domain.
So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com.
Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name.
function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
Paste the above in your command line, hit enter and try it out. If you like it you can save it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file, then source ~/.bash_aliases (assuming it is in your home directory) and it will be persistent for that session and all new sessions.
So now we just type go askubuntu.com and wallah!
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
edited Aug 7 '13 at 12:03
Radu Rădeanu
115k34245321
115k34245321
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
answered Aug 7 '13 at 11:57
Elijah Lynn
2,56721729
2,56721729
add a comment |
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
Using x-www-browser URL will open the browser or a new tab at the given URL
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
Using x-www-browser URL will open the browser or a new tab at the given URL
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
Using x-www-browser URL will open the browser or a new tab at the given URL
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
Using x-www-browser URL will open the browser or a new tab at the given URL
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
answered Nov 11 '14 at 23:07
bvidal
1114
1114
add a comment |
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
If you don't necessarily want to use the default browser, you can call any browser program directly and give the URL as argument, for example:
chromium-browser https://youtube.com
or
firefox https://youtube.com
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
17116
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
If you don't necessarily want to use the default browser, you can call any browser program directly and give the URL as argument, for example:
chromium-browser https://youtube.com
or
firefox https://youtube.com
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
17116
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
If you don't necessarily want to use the default browser, you can call any browser program directly and give the URL as argument, for example:
chromium-browser https://youtube.com
or
firefox https://youtube.com
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
17116
If you don't necessarily want to use the default browser, you can call any browser program directly and give the URL as argument, for example:
chromium-browser https://youtube.com
or
firefox https://youtube.com
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
17116
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
edited Dec 5 at 20:35
Zanna
49.3k13126236
49.3k13126236
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
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answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
17116
answered Dec 5 at 20:12
xyz
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17116
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