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Terminal team to open Safari

Is there a way to open a new Safari tab with a given URL using a terminal command? Im only interested in having it work on OSX at this point. If someone knows how to do this, let me know, since I could not find the answer by browsing the web.I want to use this command to open a new tab from a java application. Thanks!

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If Safari is the default browser, you just use

open <url>

eg:

 open http://www.google.com

You can also use this command to open any file with its registered application.

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There are several ways to do this. The easiest way is to use /usr/bin/open :

 /usr/bin/open http://stackoverflow.com/

will open the url in a standard browser or

 /usr/bin/open -a Safari http://stackoverflow.com/

will use Safari explicitly.

You can also use AppleScript through the javax.script API (JSR 223), but I don't know the syntax right now.

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