1W3M(1) General Commands Manual W3M(1)
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6 w3m - a text based Web browser and pager
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9 w3m [options] [URL or filename]
10 Use "w3m -h" to display a complete list of current options.
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14 w3m is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and Ja‐
15 panese help files and an option menu and can be configured to use
16 either language. It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) docu‐
17 ments containing links to files residing on the local system, as well
18 as files residing on remote systems. It can display HTML tables and
19 frames. In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same man‐
20 ner as "more" or "less". Current versions of w3m run on Unix (Solaris,
21 SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800) and on Microsoft Windows
22 9x/NT.
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25 At start up, w3m will load any local file or remote URL specified at
26 the command line. For help with runtime options, press "H" while run‐
27 ning w3m. Command line options are:
28 -t tab set tab width
30 -r ignore backspace effect
32 -l line
34 # of preserved line (default 10000)
35 -B load bookmark
37 -bookmark file
39 specify bookmark file
40 -T type
42 specify content-type
43 -m internet message mode
45 -v visual startup mode
47 -M monochrome display
49 -F automatically render frame
51 -dump dump formatted page into stdout
53 -cols width
55 specify column width (used with -dump)
56 -ppc count
58 specify the number of pixels per character (default 8.0) Larger
59 values will make tables narrower.
60 -dump_source
62 dump page source into stdout
63 -dump_head
65 dump response of HEAD request into stdout
66 -dump_both
68 dump HEAD and source into stdout
69 -dump_extra
71 dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
72 -post file
74 use POST method with file content
75 -header string
77 insert string as a header
78 +<num> goto <num> line
80 -num show line number
82 -no-proxy
84 don't use proxy
85 -no-mouse
87 don't use mouse
88 -cookie
90 use cookie.
91 -no-cookie
93 don't use cookie
94 -pauth user:pass
96 proxy authentication
97 -S squeeze multiple blank lines
99 -W toggle wrap search mode
101 -X don't use termcap init/deinit
103 -title [=TERM]
105 set buffer name to termianl title string. If TERM is specified,
106 use the TERM style title configuration.
107 -o opt=value
109 assign value to config option
110 -show-option
112 show all available config option
113 -config file
115 specify config file
116 -help show usage
118 -version
120 show w3m version
121 -debug DO NOT USE
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125 To use w3m as a pager:
126 $ ls | w3m
127 To use w3m to translate HTML files:
129 $ cat foo.html | w3m -T text/html
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132 $ cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html >foo.txt
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135 This is the w3m 0.2.1 Release.
136 Additional information about w3m may be found on its Japanese language
138 Web site located at:
139 http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.ja.html
140 or on its English version of the site at:
141 http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.en.html
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144 w3m has incorporated code from several sources. Hans J. Boehm, Alan J.
145 Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics have the copyright of the GC
146 library comes with w3m package. Users have contributed patches and
147 suggestions over time.
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150 Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp>
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