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slug: "open-link-like-html-a-tag-in-terminal"
title: "Create URL Links in the Terminal"
description: "With applications like iTerm2, you can make a link text open a different URL by Command + clicking, similar to how the a tag works in HTML."
url: "https://www.ytyng.com/en/blog/open-link-like-html-a-tag-in-terminal"
publish_date: "2022-12-27T12:16:32Z"
created: "2022-12-27T12:16:32Z"
updated: "2026-02-27T09:46:15.187Z"
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# Create URL Links in the Terminal
You can make applications like iTerm2 open a URL different from the link text by Command + clicking, similar to the HTML `` tag.
[Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators](https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda)
```bash
printf '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\\\n'
```
