Clean way to launch the web browser from shell script?
In a bash script, I need to launch the user web browser. There seems to be many ways of doing this:
$BROWSER xdg-open gnome-open on GNOME www-browser x-www-browser Is there a more-standard-than-the-others way to do this that would work on most platforms, or should I just go with something like this:
#/usr/bin/env bash
if [ -n $BROWSER ]; then
$BROWSER 'http://wwww.google.com'
elif which xdg-open > /dev/null; then
xdg-open 'http://wwww.google.com'
elif which gnome-open > /dev/null; then
gnome-open 'http://wwww.google.com'
# elif bla bla bla...
else
echo "Could not detect the web browser to use."
fi
xdg-open is standardized and should be available in most distributions.
Otherwise:
eval is evil, don't use it. Here is an example:
#!/bin/bash
if which xdg-open > /dev/null
then
xdg-open URL
elif which gnome-open > /dev/null
then
gnome-open URL
fi
Maybe this version is slightly better (still untested):
#!/bin/bash
URL=$1
[[ -x $BROWSER ]] && exec "$BROWSER" "$URL"
path=$(which xdg-open || which gnome-open) && exec "$path" "$URL"
echo "Can't find browser"
python -mwebbrowser http://example.com
在许多平台上工作
OSX:
$ open -a /Applications/Safari.app http://www.google.com
or
$ open -a /Applications/Firefox.app http://www.google.com
or simply...
$ open some_url
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