multi-platform browser launch?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been searching through the archives and have found a few ways to launch a default web browser pointing to a specififc URL for Win32, but does anyone have any idea how to do the same for Unix and Linux?

Win32:

use Win32::Shell;

Win32::Shell::Execute("open", "http://www.perlmonks.org", undef, undef
+, "SW_SHOWNORMAL");
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Linux: ??
Unix: ??

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Re: multi-platform browser launch? by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 27, 2006 at 15:25 UTC
`system( "firefox -browser http://www.perlmonks.org" );` [download] Or does that not work for you? My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: multi-platform browser launch? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2006 at 15:46 UTC
Linux can't seem to find the firefox binary, tried mozilla (my default) but still nothing.	[reply]
Re^2: multi-platform browser launch? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2006 at 15:50 UTC
typo...nevermind. Thanks!	[reply]
Re: multi-platform browser launch? by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 27, 2006 at 17:41 UTC
I'll bet firefox will respond as mozilla, so this should work. `my $linkurl = "http://www.zentara.net"; my $command = "mozilla -remote \"openURL($linkurl)\""; if(fork() == 0){ exec ($command) }` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
multi-platform browser launch? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 26, 2006 at 06:17 UTC
hi i also have same kind of problem... is there a way by which i can open a web page in default web browser of the system on which the script is being executed irrespective of platform??? i tried the win 32 code as given above #!/usr/bin/perl use Win32::Shell; Win32::Shell::Execute("open", "http://www.google.com", undef, undef +, "SW_SHOWNORMAL"); but i got the following error ... Cant locate win32/shell.pm in @INC(@INC contains:C:/perl/lib C:/perl/site/lib) at script.pl line 3. pls help!!!	[reply]
Re: multi-platform browser launch? by Marza (Vicar) on Apr 26, 2006 at 06:35 UTC
Code tags would be nice. Are you sure on that module? I can't find it on active state or cpan.	[reply]
Re: multi-platform browser launch? by leocharre (Priest) on Feb 27, 2006 at 17:39 UTC
you can do a "whereis firefox" or "whereis mozilla" , that might help find where the program really is i guess if this is a script that's not a web thing, and it seems like it's not, then you could also use backticks.. like if you want to get the "date" output into a var, my $date=`date`;	[reply] [d/l]