You can open a URL in chrome from the command line with: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>google-chrome https://example.com </code></pre> Is there a way to open <code>chrome://</code> URL's (such as <code>chrome://bookmarks/</code>) in this manner? When I try to open a <code>chrome://</code> URL from the shell, chrome simply opens an empty browser tab. It wouldn't be surprising if Chrome simply refuses to as a matter of user protection. If that happens to be the case: where is this documented?

Open chrome:// URL's from the command line?

You can open a URL in chrome from the command line with:

google-chrome https://example.com

Is there a way to open chrome:// URL's (such as chrome://bookmarks/) in this manner? When I try to open a chrome:// URL from the shell, chrome simply opens an empty browser tab.

It wouldn't be surprising if Chrome simply refuses to as a matter of user protection. If that happens to be the case: where is this documented?

Solution for X Window systems, using xdotool:

Put this in a shell script:

# Usage example: $0 chrome://settings/ #even works for https:// links
chromium& #opens new tab. (Maybe your browser is called chrome.)
sleep 2
xdotool type $@$'\n'