urlview(1)							   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
	      specified	 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 show-
       ing up inside the URL are handled properly.  (Note that this shouldn't
       happen  with the default regular expression, which explicitly excludes
       single 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 .

       Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez .

       Modified for SuSE by Dr. Werner Fink  and Stepan Kasal
       .

       Changes put together by Thomas Roessler .




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UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. which
2. view
3. file