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CLIPBROWSE(1p) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | CLIPBROWSE(1p) |
NAME¶
clipbrowse - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.USAGE¶
# ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL text is messy) $ clipbrowseRemember that many browsers will usefully load things that don't look like URL's. For example Firefox does a Google "I'm feeling lucky" with non-URLs. This means you can have any text in your clipboard and `clipbrowse`.
MOTIVATION¶
It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it. Chrome and Firefox, for examples, automatically create a new tab and loads the page when you invoke it from the command line. Already we've saved a Ctrl+T and a Shift+Insert. When you consider the parallelizing (that your browser will be actively loading the page while you're Alt+Tabbing to it), you've squeaked out a little more.Maybe I'm just a freak, but I like shaving out wasted time like that.
CONFIGURATION¶
The environment variable $BROWSER will override the default launching command. If you have a %s in the line, it will be replaced with the url. if not, the url will be appended at the end.The default is `chromium-browser "%s"` (Debian's Google Chrome) If you still use Firefox, consider: `firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"'`.
AUTHOR¶
Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com> =head1 COPYRIGHTCopyright (c) 2010. Ryan King. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
2016-08-14 | perl v5.22.2 |