How to reload Google Chrome tab from terminal?

Question

Is there a way to reload a Google Chrome tab in Ubuntu using just the terminal. I don\'t want to just open a new window, but to actually refresh a tab!

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Answer 1

Looks like user2974830's answer is using some incorrect (perhaps old) syntax for xdotool. --search is supposed to be just search (without the dashes) and --windowid is supposed to be --window

That being said here's a more comprehensive solution that I found here. The link uses inotifywait, but I prefer entr which wraps inotifywait.

echo "$(date --rfc-3339=seconds) Refresh: $FILE"
CUR_WID=$(xdotool getwindowfocus)

#gets the first $BROWSER window, if you have more than one
#$BROWSER window open, it might not refresh the right one,
#as an alternative you can search by the window/html title
WID=$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --class $BROWSER|head -1)
#TITLE="window/html file title"
#WID=$(xdotool search --title "$TITLE"|head -1)
xdotool windowactivate $WID
xdotool key 'ctrl+r'
xdotool windowactivate $CUR_WID

I saved it to a file called reload-chrome-nix and I run find . -type f | entr ./reload-chrome-nix