# Example: Open a website
## Windows
Open up a web browser to:
- Visit this plugin's GitHub repository: `start https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands`.
- Search the web using text you have selected: `start https://duckduckgo.com/?q={{selection}}`. **\***
## Linux
- Visit this plugin's GitHub repository: `xdg-open "https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands"`.
- Search the web using text you have selected: `xdg-open "https://duckduckgo.com/?q="{{selection}}`. **\***
## macOS
- Visit this plugin's GitHub repository: `open "https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands"`.
- Search the web using text you have selected: `open "https://duckduckgo.com/?q="{{selection}}`. **\***
**\*) Please note that SC does not currently do any kind of [URL encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Url_encoding) for variable values.**
# History
> [!page-edit-history]- Page edit history: 2021-11-19 ➔ 2023-02-28
> - [<small>2023-02-28</small>](https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands-documentation/commit/7c25de016fcfca074a5743207377e6730e6a58f9): Change word "Macintosh" to "macOS".
> - [<small>2021-11-25</small>](https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands-documentation/commit/920506704755013392420d110d2d90319cc0cf51): Example shell commands: Add Linux and Mac versions.
> - [<small>2021-11-19</small>](https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands-documentation/commit/07f94b03e4e8a79f1269c1dab598b5e7f536b652): Example shell commands.
>
> [<small>See this list of commits on GitHub</small>](https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands-documentation/commits/main/Example%20shell%20commands/Open%20a%20website.md).
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