clipbrowse - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.
# ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL text is messy) $ clipbrowse
Remember that many browsers will load things that don't look like URL's... for example Firefox does a Google "I'm feeling lucky". This means you can have any text in your clipboard and `clipbrowse`.
It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it. Firefox, for example, automatically creates 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.
It seems like Firefox (currently) isn't very smart about the X selections. If your data is in the "buffer" or "primary" selection, it will find it every time. But if it's in "clipboard" or "secondary", it won't.
When I understand all of this better I might submit some kind of bug report or patch to Firefox, but for now this script puts the love on me just fine.
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.
$BROWSER
The default is `firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"`.
Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>
Copyright (c) 2005. 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
To install Clipboard, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Clipboard
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Clipboard
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.