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Running Safari from the command line adds current directory to the URL

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Problem

I am trying to run the Safari browser (on Mac OS 10.4) from the command line, as follows: However, Safari starts up and tries to access /Users/charlesanderson/scripts happens to be my current directory. Can someone explain why Safari does this? Firefox is much better behaved.

Error Output

/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari http://localhost/dev/myfile.html

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Fix for: Running Safari from the command line adds current directory to the URL

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Starting Safari with arguments isn't supported or documented, AFAIK. It's interpreting the first argument as a path (you'll notice that if you begin it with a , it doesn't prepend the working directory). If you just want Safari to navigate to a URL,…

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