• 0.1 NAME

    0.1 NAME

    urlview - URL extractor/launcher

  • 0.2 SYNOPSIS

    0.2 SYNOPSIS

    urlview <filename> [ <filename> ... ]

  • 0.3 DESCRIPTION

    0.3 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.

  • 0.4 CONFIGURATION

    0.4 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/system.urlview. There are two configuration commands (order does not matter):

    REGEXP <regular expression to use for URL matching>

    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(2) meanings. The default REGEXP is 

    ((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto):(//)?[^ >"\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t>">]

    COMMAND <command to launch with URL>

    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 

            netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'
    NOTE: you should always put single quotes ('') around usage of ``%percnt;s'' to avoid characters in the selected URL from being interpreted by your shell. For example, I could put the following URL in my email messages: X-Nasty-Url: http://www.`program_to_execute_as_you`.com If you pass this URL to your shell, it could have nasty consequences.

  • 0.5 FILES

    0.5 FILES

    /etc/urlview/system.urlview

    system-wide urlview configuration file

    ~/.urlview

    urlview configuration file

  • 0.6 SEE ALSO

    0.6 SEE ALSO

    regcomp(3)

  • 0.7 AUTHOR

    0.7 AUTHOR

    Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>. Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>

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