Create hyperlinks in the terminal

iTerm2, bash, tips & tricks

I recently wondered how to create hyperlinks in the terminal and found a way that worked for me in iTerm2 on Mac OS. You can create clickable links with this clever command:

echo -e '33]8;;'"${url}"'a'"${link_title}"'33]8;;a'

You declare $url and $link_title, and the output is this beauty:

This method does not work in all terminals. For other terminals try this one:

echo -e 'e]8;;http://example.come\This is a linke]8;;e\'

That didn’t work for me personally. This example is taken from this document. But I didn’t manage to create a link in this way neither in iTerm2, nor in the standard terminal. Maybe all these methods are specific for different terminals.