Re^2: Launch CPAN search in browser from Windows command shell

Yeah, the cheater bit I used for Windows is the start command that dispatches the URL to the user-configured browser. I suspect there's an equivalent in Gnome/KDE (though I don't remember offhand). Unfortunately, without hard-coding a browser, I suspect this is both OS and X-environment specific on Unix. And I have no idea about MacOSX, though I suspect there's a similar "launch-url" command somewhere.

-xdg

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Re^3: Launch CPAN search in browser from Windows command shell by rhesa (Vicar) on Apr 07, 2006 at 15:17 UTC
My Debian desktop has the following alternatives setup: `www-browser (/usr/bin/w3m) mozilla ( + 1 /usr/bin/mozilla-suite * 2 /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox ) x-www-browser ( 1 /usr/bin/mozilla 2 /usr/bin/epiphany + 3 /usr/bin/konqueror * 4 /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox )` [download] So either `mozilla` or `x-www-browser` seem like sensible "launch-url" commands.	[reply] [d/l] [select]