Git Bash bash: open: command not found

bash: open: command not found

This error message is trying to tell you that there is no such command called “open”. There’s nothing wrong with the README.md.

• OSX – open is a universal opener in OSX
• Linux – has xdg-open
• Windows – use start

But you don’t need to take the instructions literally. It’s not really important how you open the readme file. You can open it with the less command to view the content inside the terminal, or you can open it with notepad for editing in a text editor.