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pipe html to a browser
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| #!/bin/sh -e | |
| # | |
| # Usage: browser | |
| # pipe html to a browser | |
| # e.g. | |
| # $ echo '<h1>hi mom!</h1>' | browser | |
| # $ ron -5 man/rip.5.ron | browser | |
| if [ -t 0 ]; then | |
| if [ -n "$1" ]; then | |
| open $1 | |
| else | |
| cat <<usage | |
| Usage: browser | |
| pipe html to a browser | |
| $ echo '<h1>hi mom!</h1>' | browser | |
| $ ron -5 man/rip.5.ron | browser | |
| usage | |
| fi | |
| else | |
| f="/tmp/browser.$RANDOM.html" | |
| cat /dev/stdin > $f | |
| open $f | |
| fi |
Small heads up for an improvement: open can be replaced by xdg-open to make this work on Linux. Maybe the script could detect if it is used on Mac/Linux and use the correct command based on that.
Here's @geoff-nixon's version as a standalone Bash script, with support already baked in for Quick Look or some other previewer. Requires bash to be somewhere in the search path if you're on Mac; should mostly work on Linux, too.
Note this was removed from Homebrew in January.
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Small heads up for an improvement: open can be replaced by xdg-open to make this work on Linux. Maybe the script could detect if it is used on Mac/Linux and use the correct command based on that.