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Praveen
Asked: 2017-07-03 05:32:38 +0800 CST

Need an xdg-open tweak

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I know that by running

watch -n 10 xdg-open https://duckduckgo.com

in the terminal, will open the specified site in a preferred browser at each 10 seconds. I am looking for a tweak which will close the tab in which the site is loaded after 5 seconds it loads. Briefly, I want to open and close a site at regular intervals from a terminal and should be able to stop the process whenever I need. Can anybody help me with this, please?

P.S. I have already tried browser extensions and I am looking for command-line ways to do it.

command-line

1 Answers

  1. Here is what I suggest:

    #!/bin/bash
while true
do
 curl https://duckduckgo.com &> /dev/null
 sleep 5
done

    Every 5 second it will opens the "duckduckgo" website once.

    You can stop the process using Ctrl+c

    Save it in a file named script.sh, then run:

    chmod +x script.sh

    and to run it use:

    ./script.sh

    Note that you don't get any output it just opens the URL once in every 5 second.

    If you want to see the output you should remove &> /dev/null.

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