CLIPBROWSE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation CLIPBROWSE(1)NAMEclipbrowse - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.
USAGE
# ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL
text is messy) $ clipbrowse
Remember that many browsers will usefully load things that don't look
like URL's. For example Firefox does a Google "I'm feeling lucky" with
non-URLs. This means you can have any text in your clipboard and
`clipbrowse`.
MOTIVATION
It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it. Chrome and
Firefox, for examples, automatically create a new tab and loads the
page when you invoke it from the command line. Already we've saved a
Ctrl+T and a Shift+Insert. When you consider the parallelizing (that
your browser will be actively loading the page while you're Alt+Tabbing
to it), you've squeaked out a little more.
Maybe I'm just a freak, but I like shaving out wasted time like that.
CONFIGURATION
The environment variable $BROWSER will override the default launching
command. If you have a %s in the line, it will be replaced with the
url. if not, the url will be appended at the end.
The default is `chromium-browser "%s"` (Debian's Google Chrome) If you
still use Firefox, consider: `firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"'`.
AUTHOR
Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com> =head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2010. Ryan King. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
perl v5.14.0 2010-10-07 CLIPBROWSE(1)