OSX Fish Functions to open Chrome from the Shell

These functions are quite handy, and allow you to do things such as copy and paste errors and google for them without having to manually open a browser. You have to enclose arguments to both functions in single quotes, e.g. ‘chrome ‘http://www.google.co.uk ’ and google ‘one two three four’. You should add these to your config file at ~/.config/fish/config.fish and make sure Google Chrome is already installed.

[code language=“bash”] function chrome /usr/bin/open -a ‘/Applications/Google Chrome.app’ $argv[1:] end function google /usr/bin/open -a ‘/Applications/Google Chrome.app’ “https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=$argv [1]” end [/code]