Ubuntu – Open URL in default browser (Chromium) from terminal and give browser focus

To Open Directory:

• To open a Folder from terminal type the following,

  nautilus /path/to/that/folder
  

  or

  xdg-open /path/to/the/folder
  

  i.e

  nautilus /home/karthick/Music
  xdg-open /home/karthick/Music
  

• Simply typing nautilus will take you file browser,

  nautilus
  

To Open URL:

• You can type any one of the following in terminal,

  xdg-open http://google.com       
  google-chrome http://google.com                 
  opera http://google.com
  firefox http://google.com
  

• If you want to open two URL's at the same time then leave some space after the first URL and type the second,

  firefox www.google.com www.gmail.com
  

Note:

• Linux is case-sensitive, so type the file name correctly.
• You can also add an alias to short the command,for example if you need openurl instead of x-www-browser you should edit the .bashrc file
  gedit ~/.bashrc

• In the bottom of the file add the following lines

  alias openurl=x-www-browser
  

  

• Save and close the file.

• Now you can open URLs by typing,

  openurl http://google.com
  

Gnome-terminal doesn't do this, as you are aware; unlike Nautilus, it doesn't have those sorts of extensions like open-terminal here. This is probably an undesirable feature anyway; URL recognition can be annoying as it is, but can you imagine doing a find and having everything clickable?

For your pwd example,

nautilus `pwd`

works, (but then so does nautilus .) For this task, I have a bash alias:

alias n="nautilus ."

so that whenever I type n, it opens nautilus wherever I am.

Otherwise, the format:

nautilus `<insert command that prints a directory here>` 

works, but doesn't get you the feature you're looking for.

A workaround would be:

1. highlight the path with the mouse (which stores it in the buffer)
2. type nautilus<space> at the prompt
3. middle-click somewhere in the terminal (which pastes the buffer to the end of the prompt).