command line use of firefox to open a local html file at a search token

[Tony Gualtieri]

From a command line I would like to open a html file from my local files
system and when opened have firefox search and move to
token specified from the command line..

I can readily do the opening using

firefox file://<path>/<local_file.html>
.
but I cannot see a way to pass a search token to firefox from the command
line. Clearly in the firefox display of the html file when opened
I can incant ^f to get the search box and use that, but i want to automate
this from the command line.

Thanks for helping,

Tony

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in linux 'firefox -h' or 'firefox -help' gives help for command line opening
of firefox.

in ms os i believe command would be 'firefox /help'.

in linux, help does not show passing a search token. maybe it is same with
ms os.

when having problems and asking questions, it helps to give firefox version,
as well as os.

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[»Q«]

> Tony Gualtieri wrote:
> >>From a command line I would like to open a html file from my local
> >>files
> > system and when opened have firefox search and move to
> > token specified from the command line..
> >
> > I can readily do the opening using
> >
> > firefox file://<path>/<local_file.html>
> > .
> > but I cannot see a way to pass a search token to firefox from the
> > command line. Clearly in the firefox display of the html file when
> > opened I can incant ^f to get the search box and use that, but i
> > want to automate this from the command line.

Sorry to reply downthread, but I don't have the original.

You can't pass a search token on the command line. If your file has
named anchors, though, you could use those.

firefox "file://>path>/local_file.html#fragment"

should take you to the anchor with name or id attribute 'fragment'.

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