open
Open a file or url in the user's preferred application.
Usage
var open = require("open");
open("http://www.google.com");
open takes an optional argument specifying the program to be used to open the
file or URL.
open("http://www.google.com", "firefox");
Installation
npm install open
How it works
- on
win32usesstart - on
darwinusesopen - otherwise uses the
xdg-openscript from freedesktop.org
Warning
The same care should be taken when calling open as if you were calling
child_process.exec
directly. If it is an executable it will run in a new shell.