How to open a directory/folder and a URL through Terminal

To Open Directory:

To open a Folder from terminal type the following,

nautilus /path/to/that/folder

xdg-open /path/to/the/folder

i.e

nautilus /home/karthick/Music
xdg-open /home/karthick/Music

To Open URL:

You can type any one of the following in terminal,

xdg-open http://google.com       
google-chrome http://google.com                 
opera http://google.com
firefox http://google.com

If you want to open two URL's at the same time then leave some space after the first URL and type the second,
```
firefox www.google.com www.gmail.com
```

Note:

Linux is case-sensitive, so type the file name correctly.
You can also add an alias to short the command,for example if you need openurl instead of x-www-browser you should edit the .bashrc file
gedit ~/.bashrc
In the bottom of the file add the following lines
```
alias openurl=x-www-browser
```
Save and close the file.
Now you can open URLs by typing,
```
openurl http://google.com
```

Instead of typing all the quotes etc. one could use:

nautilus .

Works with directories containing spaces in their names.

You can just call the aplication. Both Nautilus and Chrome accept path (url) as parameter.

nautilus /directory/subdirectory/subsubdirectory

cd /directory/subdirectory/subsubdirectory and then nautilus . (the dot is important -- it says to Nautilus to open the current directory)

google-chrome www.google.com

x-www-browser www.google.com -- this command calls the browser set as default (so if your default browser is Chrome, it will open Chrome)

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