How to open a directory/folder and a URL through Terminal

Solution 1:

To Open Directory:

• To open a Folder from terminal type the following,

  nautilus /path/to/that/folder
  

  or

  xdg-open /path/to/the/folder
  

  i.e

  nautilus /home/karthick/Music
  xdg-open /home/karthick/Music
  

• Simply typing nautilus will take you file browser,

  nautilus
  

To Open URL:

• You can type any one of the following in terminal,

  xdg-open http://google.com       
  google-chrome http://google.com                 
  opera http://google.com
  firefox http://google.com
  

• If you want to open two URL's at the same time then leave some space after the first URL and type the second,

  firefox www.google.com www.gmail.com
  

Note:

• Linux is case-sensitive, so type the file name correctly.
• You can also add an alias to short the command,for example if you need openurl instead of x-www-browser you should edit the .bashrc file
  gedit ~/.bashrc

• In the bottom of the file add the following lines

  alias openurl=x-www-browser
  

  

• Save and close the file.

• Now you can open URLs by typing,

  openurl http://google.com
  

Solution 2:

Instead of typing all the quotes etc. one could use:

nautilus .

Works with directories containing spaces in their names.