How to reload Google Chrome tab from terminal?

One liner which will focus the Chrome window and then reload the browser by sending Control+r:

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class Chrome windowfocus key ctrl+r

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install xdotoolDISPLAY=:0 xdotool key F5

That's all you need.

Looks like user2974830's answer is using some incorrect (perhaps old) syntax for xdotool. --search is supposed to be just search (without the dashes) and --windowid is supposed to be --window

That being said here's a more comprehensive solution that I found here. The link uses inotifywait, but I prefer entr which wraps inotifywait.

echo "$(date --rfc-3339=seconds) Refresh: $FILE"CUR_WID=$(xdotool getwindowfocus)#gets the first $BROWSER window, if you have more than one#$BROWSER window open, it might not refresh the right one,#as an alternative you can search by the window/html titleWID=$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --class $BROWSER|head -1)#TITLE="window/html file title"#WID=$(xdotool search --title "$TITLE"|head -1)xdotool windowactivate $WIDxdotool key 'ctrl+r'xdotool windowactivate $CUR_WID

I saved it to a file called reload-chrome-nix and I run find . -type f | entr ./reload-chrome-nix