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How do I open the link to my Github repo by running a command from the terminal?

I want to visit the webpage for my repo:

Github.com/myUsername/myRepoName

After navigating in my terminal to the myRepoName directory, can I run a command to open that link in my browser?

Solution

  • Here's a bash script that will work for both ssh and https URL.

    #!/bin/bash

# Script to open the GitHub page of the current repository in the default browser

fetch_url=$(git config --get remote.origin.url)
# outputs 'git@github.com:some-name/some-repo-name.git' or 'https://github.com/some-name/some-repo-name.git'


if [[ $fetch_url == *"https"* ]]; then
    github_url="${fetch_url%.git}"
else
    # Split the URL on ':' and get the 2nd portion
    url_portion="$(echo "$fetch_url" | awk -F':' '{print $2}')"

    # Remove the .git from the end of the URL
    url_portion="${url_portion%.git}"

    # Construct the final GitHub URL
    github_url="https://github.com/"$url_portion
fi

xdg-open "$github_url"