From: "Joseph E. Savard" <joseph.savard@...>
Date: 2010-08-10T05:58:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing programs through the terminal with ruby

In OS X :  open /Applications/Tools/browsers/Firefox.app

In Ubuntu : Gnome : gnome-open Firefox


From irb:  FIREFOX would be opened.  Samething in Ubuntu

! irb
irb(main):001:0> `open /Applications/Tools/browsers/Firefox.app`
=> ""
irb(main):002:0> 



> From: Kaspir Ghost <trevor@nugendesign.com>
> Reply-To: <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:39:22 +0900
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Subject: Accessing programs through the terminal with ruby
> 
> Specifically browsers. I'm trying to get a bunch of different browsers
> (FF, Opera, Safari, IE, Chrome, and Fock) to all open the same url/file
> location either 1) Simultaneously or 2) One after the other. Meaning one
> browser open and when you close it out the next one opens.
> 
> So basically I need to know if it's possible to submit commands to the
> terminal to open browsers to a specific location.
> 
> I'm using the gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 10.04
> 
> Thanks in advance! :D
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