I’ve been using this script for 5 years (posted originally on Feb 1, 2015) and it’s been very useful to me, so this is me honouring this script for it’s service.
It was Inspired and based off of this gist, since that script didn’t work with my environment, I decided to improve on it.
Requirements
You need to have bash installed, but this was also tested in zsh so feel free to change the hashbang, apart from that, the only thing you need to do is to set the $BROWSER environment variable.
$ export BROWSER="firefox" # or "chromium-browser" or "chrome" or any browser you want
And here is the code:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -t 0 ]; then
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
$BROWSER $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
file_path="/dev/shm/browser.${RANDOM}.html"
cat /dev/stdin > $file_path
$BROWSER $file_path
fi
Just in case I change it, this the version I’m currently using: https://github.com/LuRsT/Setup/blob/master/bin/browser