Inspired by this post for Windows on Raymond Chen’s blog, detailing how to make a best-effort attempt to open a query in the user’s default browser and search provider, I decided to write a Linux equivalent.
Since Raymond used C# for Windows (what could be more Windows?), I decided to use Bourne shell script for the Linux version (what could be more UNIXy?). Of course, me being me, I couldn’t help but add more error handling than Raymond does for his little programs.
Enjoy.
Script to open in default web search provider by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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