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 com
mands (order does not matter):
REGEXP regexp
urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs
from the specified text files. \r, \t, \n and \f
are all converted to their normal printf(3) mean
ings. 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, other
wise 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 happen 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 ALSO
printf(3), regcomp(3), regex(7)
AUTHOR
Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>.
<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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