How do I open a file with Chrome from the command line?

Question

I would like to open a file (index.html) in the current directory with Google Chrome or Chromium from a bash terminal (I\'m using Linux Mint 15). What is the command? I\'v

Answer 1

It looks like Chrome is not in your $PATH the way it should be. Easy solution would probably be to uninstall and reinstall Chrome, which should put it in your $PATH. Then

google-chrome [file] 

should work for you.

Answer 2

Doing some search for chromium you could do it like chromium-browser path|file.

Answer 3

For MacOS, with absolute path (if your Chrome is installed in the /Applications folder) in bash CLI use:

 /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome

So, if you want to open the CNN webpage:

 /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome  www.cnn.com

Answer 4

From the bash shell (on Windows), you can use:

start myFilename.html

and to open a folder:

explorer "C:\Program Files\Git"

Added for reference, since my search landed here, too.

Answer 5

This solution has always worked for me - open -a "google\ chrome.app" index.html - where "google\ chrome.app" is the name/location of chrome on your system.

OR

If Chrome is your default browser, simply - open index.html

Answer 6

For Mac i'm using

open -a 'google chrome' /yourPath