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

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Published on 2010-04-22T16:58:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 17:03 UTC
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I am trying to run the Safari browser (on Mac OS 10.4) from the command line, as follows:

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

However, Safari starts up and tries to access

file:///Users/charlesanderson/scripts/http://localhost/dev/myfile.html

/Users/charlesanderson/scripts happens to be my current directory.

Can someone explain why Safari does this? Firefox is much better behaved?

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