Tim here. I suspect that it was missing the backticks. Typing firefox "cat /home/jude/surf" would send firefox to www.cat.com whereas either the firefox "`cat /home/jude/surf`" that you suggested or firefox "$(cat /home/jude/surf)" (I prefer the "$(…)" notation because it nests more easily) should expand the contents of the file into the string. -tim On April 15, 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > Thanks for the ideas, neither work. Both get problem loading > > url. The first one tried to load www.cat.com too. > > That shouldn't happen. Are you typing it correctly? > > Putting the cat command in accents tells the shell to add the > output of the command to the command line. so: > > firefox "`cat /home/jude/surf`" > > realy should work. Certainly, the word "cat" should never reach > the command line. > > Cheers, > Geoff. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list