Terminal – create hyperlinks

I am creating Log-Reports which are viewable through the Web-browser. Is there an easy way to make links clickable in Linux Terminal? (Gnome-Terminal)

I am copying those links and manually open my web-browser to achieve that right now.

Answers:

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Method 1

Newer version of GNOME terminal now support hyperlinks with custom target via certain escape sequences. Try

echo -e 'e]8;;http://example.comaThis is a linke]8;;a'

Opening these works the same way as described in the answer by Stephen Kitt.

See also: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

Method 2

If the links are output as full URLs, they should be clickable when you hover over them (with the mouse pointer) while holding Ctrl down.


All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0

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