1urlview(1)                  General Commands Manual                 urlview(1)
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NAME

6       urlview - URL extractor/launcher
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SYNOPSIS

9       urlview filename [ filename ... ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       urlview  is  a  screen  oriented  program for extracting URLs from text
13       files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view
14       a specific item.
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CONFIGURATION

17       urlview attempts to read ~/.urlview upon startup.  If this file doesn't
18       exist, it will try to read a system  wide  file  in  /etc/urlview.conf.
19       There are two configuration commands (order does not matter):
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21       REGEXP regexp
22              urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs from the spec‐
23              ified text files.  \r, \t, \n and \f are all converted to  their
24              normal printf(3) meanings.  The default REGEXP is:
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26       (((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^' <>"]+|(www|web|w3).[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' .,;<>":]
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29       COMMAND command
30              If  the  specified  command contains a %s, it will be subsituted
31              with the URL that was requested, otherwise the URL  is  appended
32              to the COMMAND string.  The default COMMAND is:
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34              url_handler.sh %s
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36       Note:  You  should never put single quotes around the %s.  urlview does
37       this for you, and also makes sure that single quotes eventually showing
38       up inside the URL are handled properly.  (Note that this shouldn't hap‐
39       pen with the default regular expression, which explicitly excludes sin‐
40       gle quotes.)
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FILES

43       /etc/urlview.conf
44              system-wide urlview configuration file
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47              urlview configuration file
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SEE ALSO

50       printf(3), regcomp(3), regex(7)
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AUTHOR

53       Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>.
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55       Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>.
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57       Modified  for SuSE by Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and Stepan Kasal
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60       Changes put together by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>.
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