RE: gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 February 2006 23:04, Joe Smith wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: True, except cygstart won't do unconditional 'www*'-'http://www*' translation if a file with that name exists (e.g., try touch www.cygwin.com cygstart www.cygwin.com). Igor Cmd's 'start' command is exactly the same in this

Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-20 Thread Joe Smith
Igor Peshansky wrote: True, except cygstart won't do unconditional 'www*'-'http://www*' translation if a file with that name exists (e.g., try touch www.cygwin.com cygstart www.cygwin.com). Igor Cmd's 'start' command is exactly the same in this respect. I'm betting that the 'run' applet of

gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-16 Thread zzapper
Hi gurl www.cygwin.com or just gurl if url already in paste buffer gurl function gurl() { # Go to URL # description : Open URL in browser if no parameter use paste buffer if [ $# -gt 0 ] then url=$1 else url=$(getclip) fi if [[ $url = www* ]] then # add http:// prefix if required

Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-16 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: # c:/progra~1/opera75/opera.exe $url c:/Program\ Files/internet\ explorer/iexplore $url } Yuck. No need to do this, just cygstart http://www.cygwin.com; or cygstart www.cygwin.com. This will launch the URL in whatever browser the user has configured to handle http://, rather

Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: Yuck. No need to do this, just cygstart http://www.cygwin.com; or cygstart www.cygwin.com. This will launch the URL in whatever browser the user has configured to handle http://, rather than hardcoding it. This is equivalent to Start - Run. And, on top of that, if you

Re: gurl (call browser and it an URL)

2006-02-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: zzapper wrote: # c:/progra~1/opera75/opera.exe $url c:/Program\ Files/internet\ explorer/iexplore $url } Yuck. No need to do this, just cygstart http://www.cygwin.com; or cygstart www.cygwin.com. This will launch the URL in whatever browser