https://github.com/pwnall/node-open

open a file or uri with the users preferred application (browser, editor, etc), cross platform
https://github.com/pwnall/node-open

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open a file or uri with the users preferred application (browser, editor, etc), cross platform

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pwnall/node-open
• Owner: pwnall
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-06-07T13:55:47.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-12T16:15:48.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-10T14:05:22.546Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 376 KB
• Stars: 560
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 64
• Open Issues: 44
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# open

Open a file or url in the user's preferred application.

# Usage

```javascript

var open = require("open");

open("http://www.google.com");

```

`open` takes an optional argument specifying the program to be used to open the

file or URL.

```javascript

open("http://www.google.com", "firefox");

```

# Installation

    npm install open

# How it works

- on `win32` uses `start`

- on `darwin` uses `open`

- otherwise uses the `xdg-open` script from [freedesktop.org](http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html)

# Warning

The same care should be taken when calling open as if you were calling

[child_process.exec](http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_exec_command_options_callback)

directly. If it is an executable it will run in a new shell.