Useful script to open and interact with Safari from terminal on MacOS

3 types of usage:

1. safari.sh ----> simply open Safari
2. safari.sh --url URL_PARAM ----> open a tab in Safari with the site specified in URL_PARAM
3. safari.sh YOUR_QUERY_SEPARATED_BY_SPACE ----> open Safari and search "YOUR_QUERY_SEPARATED_BY_SPACE" on Google (NOTE: if your query contains symbols which are Shell operators (e.g. (, ), &, ', >), you should put it in quotes as you can see in example usage 3.ii)

Examples of usage:

1. safari.sh ----> open Safari
2. safari.sh --url www.github.com ----> open https://www.github.com on Safari
3. 1. safari.sh something to search on Google ----> find "something to search on Google" on Google
   2. safari.sh "Where there's a will there's a way (proverb)" ----> find "Where there's a will there's a way (proverb)" on Google

Support for other web browsers

If you usually use another web browser on your Mac, you can easily adapt my script by changing BROWSER_PATH variable with the correct web browser installation path. For example:

Google Chrome

BROWSER_PATH="/Applications/Google Chrome.app"

Mozilla Firefox

BROWSER_PATH="/Applications/Firefox.app"

Opera

BROWSER_PATH="/Applications/Opera.app"

Extra

See https://github.com/antoniolanza1996/scripts_and_dotfiles/tree/main/bash_scripts for other useful bash scripts for MacOS.