How can you launch a website from the command prompt?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

Use the DOS command START from the command window

START iexplore.exe "http:\\www.yahoo.com"

You might have to include the path to internet explorer using the short names of directories or change to the directory first to get this to work in the above format.

[Place following on one line]

START C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1
\iexplore.exe "http:\\www.yahoo.com"

The above uses the short name format for C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Answer 2

Depends what you mean exactly by "launch a website". Lynx is a command line browser, so you could just type:

lynx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)