How to generate a link to a line in a file #9308

found discussion i was thinking of:

#7663

Use gh browse with path:line (and --no-browser to just print the URL instead of opening it):

gh browse cmd/gh/main.go:312 --no-browser

To print a (range) URL like GitHub's #L10-L15, you can open/verify via:

gh browse cmd/gh/main.go:10 --no-browser

and then extend to #L10-L15 in the URL if needed.

Related flags:

• --branch / --commit to pin the view to a non-default ref
• --blame for the blame view (gh browse main.go:312 --blame)

If this is what you were looking for, please mark this comment as the answer — thanks!

I'd pin the link to a commit so it still points at the same code later:

# Run inside the repository; substitute your file and line.
gh browse cmd/gh/main.go:10 --no-browser --commit="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"

For a line range, replace the URL fragment:

url=$(gh browse cmd/gh/main.go:10 --no-browser --commit="$(git rev-parse HEAD)") &&
  printf '%s#L10-L15\n' "${url%%#*}"

Change the file and line numbers to yours. --no-browser just prints the link. Browse docs.

Checked URL generation with gh 2.103.3 and the range replacement locally.