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grip: Start the server and open the `README` file of the current directory in the browser.

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$ grip --browser

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The command "grip --browser" is used to open a web browser and display the contents of a file in a GitHub-flavored Markdown format.

Grip is a command-line tool that allows you to preview your Markdown files locally before pushing them to a remote repository on GitHub. It renders the Markdown file as HTML and serves it through a local web server, allowing you to view the rendered file in a web browser.

Adding the "--browser" flag with the "grip" command instructs the tool to automatically open the default web browser on your system and display the rendered Markdown file. Without this flag, the file would still be rendered and served by the local web server, but you would need to manually open a web browser and navigate to the provided local server URL to view the file.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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