I am creating Log-Reports which are viewable through the Web-browser. Is there an easy way to make links clickable in Linux Terminal? (Gnome-Terminal)
I am copying those links and manually open my web-browser to achieve that right now.
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Newer version of GNOME terminal now support hyperlinks with custom target via certain escape sequences. Try
echo -e '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\\'
Opening these works the same way as described in the answer by Stephen Kitt.
See also: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
If the links are output as full URLs, they should be clickable when you hover over them (with the mouse pointer) while holding Ctrl down.
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@user1767754 Forthcoming gnome-terminal 3.26 will support web-style hyperlinks, that is, where the visible text is potentially something entirely different from the target URL. And there's even a patch for the
lsutility. See gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda.egmont– egmont2017-08-11 19:25:35 +00:00Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 19:25 -
1@ibrahim5253 yes, this is possible at least in Ubuntu. You just need to prepend
file://to the fully qualified path of the file. Unfortunately, a relative path cannot be supplied, only a fully qualified path though.matanox– matanox2018-05-20 05:48:07 +00:00Commented May 20, 2018 at 5:48 -
This also works for macOS with the cmd keyRenRen– RenRen2022-02-11 14:22:59 +00:00Commented Feb 11, 2022 at 14:22