[X-Unix] "open" command syntax?

[Steve]

Stroller, i find the same results as yourself. Camino is my default  
browser, but this opens safari as expected: open -a Safari.app http:// 
google.com

Using 10.4.4 fwiw..

Steve

On 13 Jan, 2006, at 20:06, Stroller wrote:

> That's interesting - I wonder if your problem is unique to Mozilla.
>
> Here the default browser is OmniWeb, and that can be opened with   
> `open http://google.com`. On the other hand `open -a Safari.app  
> http://google.com` opens the page in Safari, largely as I'd  
> expected from the manpage. It might be worth quoting 'http:// 
> google.com' as er the manpage examples but I'm not optimistic.