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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users script to open the specified url in a browser from a text file Post 302133133 by prvnrk on Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 06:10:27 AM
Old 08-22-2007
Could you be more specific like what do you want to achieve by opening URL in the browser? and also which browser do you want to open this URL?

If you want to download something from URL, you could use wget without any browser onto your box.
 

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xdg-open

XDG-OPEN(1)							  xdg-open Manual						       XDG-OPEN(1)

NAME

       xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-open {file | URL}

       xdg-open {--help | --manual | --version}

DESCRIPTION

       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. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp,
       http and https URLs.

       xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Show command synopsis.

       --manual
	   Show this manual page.

       --version
	   Show the xdg-utils version information.

EXIT CODES

       An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

       1
	   Error in command line syntax.

       2
	   One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

       3
	   A required tool could not be found.

       4
	   The action failed.

EXAMPLES

	   xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/'

       Opens the freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser.

	   xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png

       Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image viewing application.

AUTHORS

       Kevin Krammer
	   Author.

       Jeremy White
	   Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006

xdg-utils 1.0							    06/10/2014							       XDG-OPEN(1)
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