How to open Google Chrome or Safari from Terminal
When I try to open 'chrome' or 'safari' in terminal,
$ safari
-bash: safari: command not found
$ open safari
The file Desktop/safari does not exist.
$ chrome
-bash: chrome: command not found
How to open them in right methods.
All you need to do in Terminal, no matter what directory you're in, is use
open -a Safari
open -a Google\ Chrome
and optionally, add the URL afterwards if you want to open the Browser to the given URL
open -a Safari http://apple.com/
There are several ways you could do it. But first, if Safari
is your default browser, then you can just use this to open the URL:open <url>
=> open http://www.google.com
(Remember to specify the protocol!) and this will open the URL in Safari (default browser)
Otherwise you can be more specific like:
/usr/bin/open https://google.com/
And to open a sepecific browser, you can do
/usr/bin/open -a Safari https://google.com/
/usr/bin/open -a Firefox https://google.com/
/usr/bin/open -a Chrome https://google.com/