urlview(1)urlview(1)NAMEurlview - URL extractor/launcher
SYNOPSISurlview filename [ filename ... ]
DESCRIPTIONurlview 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.
CONFIGURATIONurlview 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:
(((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^' <>"]+|(www|web|w3).[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' .,;<>":]
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:
url_handler.sh %s
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.)
FILES
/etc/urlview.conf
system-wide urlview configuration file
~/.urlview
urlview configuration file
SEE ALSOprintf(3), regcomp(3), regex(7)AUTHOR
Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>.
Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>.
Modified for SuSE by Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and Stepan Kasal
<kasal@suse.cz>.
Changes put together by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>.
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