Linux command to open URL in default browser

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What command we have to execute  from Java  but that should not matter  on Linux  different common distributions  to open a given URL in the default browser

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On distributions that come with the open command     open http   www google com

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1     Desktop s -or- Console use  sensible-browser  URL    Opinion  best  Target preferred APP    My-Server translates to  w3m  options   URL or filename        -z   BROWSER     amp  amp  echo  Empty    Then  Set the BROWSER environment variable to your desired browser      2     Alternative    Desktop  if  command-not-found  out-Dated  x-www-browser http   tv jimmylandstudios xyz   firefox     3      - A Must Know -    Desktop   usr share applications   desktop  xdg-open  URI   opens about anything on Linux  w   desktop file

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on ubuntu you can try gnome-open     gnome-open http   www google com

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In Java  version 6    you can also do   Desktop d   Desktop getDesktop    d browse uri     Though this won t work on all Linuxes  At the time of writing  Gnome is supported  KDE isn t

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I think using xdg-open http   example com is probably the best choice    In case they don t have it installed I suppose they might have just kde-open or gnome-open  both of which take a single file url  or some other workaround such as looping over common browser executable names until you find one which can be executed using which   If you want a full list of workarounds fallbacks I suggest reading xdg-open it s a shell script which calls out to kde-open gnome-open etc  or some other fallback     But since xdg-open and xdg-mime used for one of the fallbacks   are shell scripts I d recommend including them in your application and if calling which xdg-open fails add them to temporary PATH variable in your subprograms environment and call out to them  If xdg-open fails  I d recommend throwing an Exception with an error message from what it output on stderr and catching the exception and printing displaying the error message    I would ignore the java awt Desktop solution as the bug seems to indicate they don t plan on supporting non-gnome desktops anytime soon

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For opening a URL in the browser through the terminal  CentOS 7 users can use gio open command  For example  if you want to open google com then gio open https   www google com will open google com URL in the browser    xdg-open https   www google com will also work but this tool has been deprecated  Use gio open instead  I prefer this as this is the easiest way to open a URL using a command from the terminal

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The most cross-distribution one is xdg-open http   stackoverflow com

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I believe the simplest method would be to use Python   python -m webbrowser  http   www example com

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I think a combination of xdg-open as described by shellholic and - if it fails - the solution to finding a browser using the which command as described here is probably the best solution

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At least on Debian and all its derivatives  there is a  sensible-browser  shell script which choose the browser best suited for the given url   http   man he net man1 sensible-browser

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