urlview(1) General Commands Manual urlview(1)
NAME
urlview - URL extractor/launcher
SYNOPSIS
urlview filename [ filename ... ]
DESCRIPTION
urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text
files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view
a specific item.
CONFIGURATION
urlview attempts to read ~/.urlview upon startup. If this file doesn't
exist, it will try to read a system wide file in /etc/urlview.conf.
There are two configuration commands (order does not matter):
REGEXP regexp
urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs from the spec-
ified text files. \r, \t, \n and \f are all converted to their
normal printf(3) meanings. The default REGEXP is:
(((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]*|(www|ftp)[0-9]?\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]?[^, <>"\t]*[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]
COMMAND command
If the specified command contains a %s, it will be subsituted
with the URL that was requested, otherwise the URL is appended
to the COMMAND string. The default COMMAND is:
/usr/bin/url_handler.sh
Note: You should never put single quotes around the %s. urlview does
this for you, and also makes sure that single quotes eventually showing
up inside the URL are handled properly. (Note that this shouldn't hap-
pen with the default regular expression, which explicitly excludes sin-
gle quotes.)
WRAP choice
Enable or disable URL wrapping. Valid values for choice are:
yes, no (case insensitive). If this option is not supplied, the
default behaviour is to disable wrapping.
FILES
/etc/urlview.conf
system-wide urlview configuration file
~/.urlview
urlview configuration file
ENVIRONMENT
If the environment variable BROWSER is set to a browser command, or a
colon-delimited list of commands to try, then the specified browser is
used. %s is replaced with the quoted url to view. If %s is not part of
a command, the url is appended to the command.
The BROWSER environment variable is honored only if the rc-file doesn't
contain the COMMAND option. The rc-file provided by the Debian package
contains a COMMAND option.
SEE ALSO
printf(3), regcomp(3), regex(7), environ(7)
AUTHOR
Michael Elkins <me AT sigpipe.org>
Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh AT debian.org> and
Emanuele Rocca <ema AT debian.org>.
Modified for SuSE by Dr. Werner Fink <werner AT suse.de> and Stepan Kasal
<kasal AT suse.cz>.
Changes put together by Thomas Roessler <roessler AT does-not-exist.org>.
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