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A small script to serve a local directory via HTTP
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serve.sh
#!/bin/bash
# see http://veithen.github.io/2014/11/16/sigterm-propagation.html
trap 'kill -TERM $PID' TERM INT
python -m SimpleHTTPServer & PID=$!
python -m webbrowser -t "http://127.0.0.1:8000/"
wait $PID
trap - TERM INT
wait $PID
exit $?
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mapio commented Apr 17, 2015

Just go to the directory you want to serve and type serve.sh (if you have it in your path, or ./serve.sh if you have saved it in the directory are into). It will start the Python SimpleHTTPServer from the current directory and open the system web browser pointing it to the just started server; once done, hit ctrl-c and it will stop the running server.

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