title: Open a URL in browser as a post build step in Jenkins
body: <p>I am planning to open a URL in browser as a post build step in Jenkins. I tried using Pipeline Jenkins and included the code below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>node {
      stage ("execute"){
          bat 'start www.google.com'
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm getting output as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Started by user anonymous
  [Pipeline] node
  Running on master in C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\free
  [Pipeline] {
  [Pipeline] stage
  [Pipeline] { (execute)
  [Pipeline] bat
  [free] Running batch script
  
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\free&gt;start www.google.com 
  [Pipeline] }
  [Pipeline] // stage
  [Pipeline] }
  [Pipeline] // node
  [Pipeline] End of Pipeline
  Finished: SUCCESS
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the URL specified is not getting opened in browser. When I run the same command <code>start www.google.com</code> in command prompt, it is opening the Google site in default browser. How to solve this?</p>