Linux: command to open URL in default browser

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I believe the simplest method would be to use Python:

python -m webbrowser "http://www.example.com/"

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

on ubuntu you can try gnome-open.

$ gnome-open http://www.google.com