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uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL)

is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.

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How to download a file from a website via terminal?

Suppose that we have a full URL of desired file e.g. http://domain.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=file.tgz I would like to go without installing a new software. Is it possible? Command cp …
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Create a shortcut for URL?

How can I create a shortcut for URL in my desktop? I want to use them in Firefox or Chrome. If a copy and paste didn't work. What script I have to use?
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How can I encode and decode percent-encoded strings on the command line?

How can I encode and decode percent-encoded (URL encoded) strings on the command line? I'm looking for a solution that can do this: $ percent-encode "ændrük" %C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk $ percent-decode "%C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk" ændrük
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Equivalent of .URL file on Ubuntu

An URL link has been saved in *.url file via Windows. If you double click the file in Windows, it will open your default browser to the indicated URL. Here is an example of *.url file…
Abdennour TOUMI
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URL protocol handlers in basic Ubuntu Desktop

There was a way to register URL protocol handlers with Gconf, which is now obsolete and there seems to be no way to do the same with DConf (or Gsettings, its recommended wrapper). How do one properly register an URL protocol handlers since…
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How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?

I have a lot of Powerpoint slides that I converted to LibreOffice Impress. The resulting hyperlinks are very faded, very hard to see. I can't seem to find any way to change the colour of hyperlinks as a whole. Any colour change I do make on an…
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How to reset external protocol handler in Chrome?

A while back I selected "Do nothing" when Chrome asked me how to handle a specific url. Now I want Chrome to launch xdg-open, which again can launch the correct application, but I can't figure out how to undo my "Do nothing" selection. Any…
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How to access micro8ks's dashboard web UI?

There's information how to enable the dashboard extension microk8s.enable dashboard (which I ran) and how to display URLs of other extensions enabled like this: kubectl cluster-info How to get the URL of the dashboard of a microk8s installation…
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How to open a link in browser from gedit?

I have some text files that contains some links/url. I would like to open the link/url in firefox or chrome when I click (left mouse click) the link. Is that possible? So far I have tried to add a plugin by copying the files in…
Sheikh Hridoy
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Thunderbird calendar events don't have clickable URLs turned on

Is there a way to make my T-bird calendars have "live" (clickable) URLs in them? Like many others, my calendar now has lots of Zoom & webex meetings. It's a nuisance to open the event, copy the URL, open it in FireFox... Much easier to just click…
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How to open a link in a PDF with the error: "Unable to open external link. Failed to execute child process “sh” (Permission denied)"?

I have a similar problem to this unanswered question. When I click on a link in a PDF document using evince, I get the error: "Unable to open external link. Failed to execute child process “sh” (Permission denied)". As a reference, the link is on…
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URL in Launcher

How do I get an URL in Unity Launcher, so when I click the URL the website of that URL opens in my standard webbrowser - i.e. firefox. (I am using Ubuntu 12.10)
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Are U1 public urls static?

If I publish several U1 files, delete some, add some, update their file content - will the public URLs of every file stay the same in the end, or do they change depending on the order files are published in and etc?
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Location of the URLs of the open tabs of Chromium browser in Ubuntu

I want to save all URLs of opened windows of google chromium in different text files with command line. In order to do that, I would need to know where google chromium stores their current google chromium URLs in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Even though I want…
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Can't open link in PDF

I'm using the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell XPS 13 9350. The link is a reference in a technical paper. I get the error "Unable to open external link, Failed to execute child process "/opt/google/chrome/chrome" (Permission denied)" I…
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