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Actually for me, the command is not working with the "--args" being present so the command working for me is

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" 'http://google.com/'

OS X version: 10.6.8

If you set Google Chrome as your default browser

open http://google.com/

will just do the trick.

OS X version: 10.8.4

You can use

open -a "Google Chrome" index.html

or, to put it in a shell script (e.g. ~/bin/chrome)

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  edit the file ~/bin/chrome, and put the following in it

  
  
  

  open -a "Google Chrome" "$*"

  
  


• 
  

  make the file executable by running the following in a terminal

  
  
  

  chmod 700 ~/bin/chrome

  
  


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  then run the following to open a file in chrome from the terminal

  
  
  

  chrome /path/to/some/file

  
  

Pulled from here

I've an alias for google

function google() { open /Applications/Google Chrome.app/ "http://www.google.com/search?q= $1"; }

Get rid of the --args. open already knows how to handle URLs.

this is my method.

1. 
   

   Update ~/.bash_profile and add the chrome function below:

   
   
   

   function chrome(){ 
   
       local site=""
   
       if [[ -f "$(pwd)/$1" ]]; then
   
           site="$(pwd)/$1"
   
       elif [[ "$1" =~ "^http" ]]; then
   
           site="$1"
   
       else
   
           site="http://$1"
   
       fi  
   
       /usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" "$site"; 
   
   }
   
   

   
   



2. Load ~/.bash_profile:
   source ~/.bash_profile




3. Lunch chrome and open a site:
   chrome www.google.com




4. Open a local site:
   chrome LOCAL_SITE_PATH

In macos Sierra 10.12.6 .If chrome is your default browser. You can do this by

open index.html

There are several helpful answers here but none that contain the complete info for opening a URL in Chrome in both cases whether it is or is not the default browser.

1. 
   

   Open a URL in the default browser (could be Chrome):

   
   
   

   open http://www.example.com
   
   

   
   


2. 
   

   Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app name):

   
   
   

   open -a "Google Chrome" http://www.example.com
   
   

   
   


3. 
   

   Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app path alternative syntax):

   
   
   

   open -a /Applications/Google Chrome.app/ http://example.com
   
   

   
   


4. 
   

   Open a URL in Chrome always (using the bundle identifier alternative syntax):

   
   
   

   open -b com.google.chrome http://www.example.com
   
   

   
   


5. 
   

   Open a URL in Chrome in an incognito window always:

   
   
   

   From man open, it would seem that you should be able to do it like this (but alas it does not seem to get the incognito option to Chrome):

   
   
   

   open -a "Google Chrome" http://example.com/ --args --incognito
   
   

   
   
   

   However, you can do it by passing the Chrome command line switches directly to the Chrome binary:

   
   
   

   /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --incognito http://example.com