Browser script to view html code from the terminal to the browser

README.md

Browser

Inspired and based off of https://gist.github.com/defunkt/318247, since that script didn't work with my environment, I decided to improve on it.

Requirements

You need to have bash installed, but this was also tested in zsh so feel free to change the hashbang, apart from that the only thing you need to do is to set the $BROWSER environment variable.

$ export BROWSER="firefox" # or "chromium-browser" or "chrome" or any browser you want

browser

#!/bin/bash

if [ -t 0 ]; then
    if [ -n "$1" ]; then
        $BROWSER $1
    else
        cat <<usage
Usage: browser
       pipe html to a browser

$ echo '<h1>hi mom!</h1>' | browser
$ ron -5 man/rip.5.ron | browser
usage
fi
else
    file_path="/dev/shm/browser.${RANDOM}.html"
    cat /dev/stdin > $file_path
    $BROWSER $file_path
fi