Apple - Open a file:/// url with #anchor from terminal
Don't use the open command.
Google Chrome:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"
Safari:
osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to open location "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor2"'
A non-specific approach is:
osascript -e 'open location "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"'
Taking a stab at narrowing this down: I was getting cryptic errors [1] from this command, and only inconsistently:
osascript -e 'open location "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"'
Weirdly, that command breaks on file paths containing spaces only if the file path with spaces additionally contains an anchor.
I had no luck with backslash-escaping and quoting the problematic path (more like "'\"Application\\ Sabotage\"'"
, am I right?), but percent-encoding the spaces to %20
avoided the issue.
[1]: at first, I was only seeing:
execution error: File some object wasn’t found. (-43)
but some attempts at escaping eventually gave me the slightly more helpful:
syntax error: Expected “"” but found unknown token. (-2741)