Re: closing and opening a browser

[Matt Morse]

also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address
as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone
give a hand with that?

You can use the open command (see the man page for details):

open -a Internet\ Explorer http://www.cnn.com

or, if you don't want to specify a particular app:

open http://www.cnn.com

...and the site will appear in the user's preferred browser.

As for closing the app, I'd see if there's an AppleScript way to do that. I agree that shooting it in the head seems a bit harsh ;-).

-- Matt

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 12:44 PM, allan wrote:

hi

2 small problems.

i like to know how to close a program like Internet Explorer from perl.
the little script below seem to work for me, but i guess there must be
a cleaner and more correct way.

also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address
as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone
give a hand with that?

thanks
./allan

# killing
my @output = `ps aux | grep '/Applications/Internet Explorer.app'`;

foreach my $line (@output) {
    if ($line =~
m,^\s*$ENV{LOGNAME}\s+(\d+).+\d+:\d+.\d+\s+/Applications/Internet
Explorer.app,) {
        system("kill", $1)
    }
}