Launch a webpage from a ChromeBook secure shell script?

Question

I've got an AWS instance running Jupyter that I use for general mucking around, and tend to shut it down when not in use. Shutting it down changes the IP and the DNS name. On the Mac, I have a simple script that uses the AWS CLI to grab the current IP of the instance and use that to open the Jupyter notebook in Chrome.

I'm trying to replicate the same functionality on a ChromeBook. I've been able to get the shell running, get the AWS CLI running, but can't figure out how to do the last bit, which is to open the URL in Chrome. (In other words, do the equivalent of the OSX Bash command open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" http://1.2.3.4:8888 on the ChromeBook shell.

So basically I want to know how to open an arbitrary URL in Chrome from the ChromeBook shell.

Answer 1

My Chromium OS machine has xdg-open. If your version has that, it'll be the easiest thing.

xdg-open http://1.2.3.4:8888

If not, you can always just call the full path of Chrome with the url as a parameter, (e.g. chrome http://...) or consider the many options provided here.