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urlview(1)		     General Commands Manual		      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  spe-
     cific item.

CONFIGURATION
     urlview attempts to read ~/.urlview upon startup.	If this file doesn't ex-
     ist,  it will try to read a system wide file in /usr/local/etc/urlview/sys-
     tem.urlview.  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:

     (((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]*|(www|ftp)[0-9]?\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]?[^, <>"\t]*[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]

     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:

	    /usr/local/etc/urlview/url_handler.sh

     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  in-
     side  the	URL are handled properly.  (Note that this shouldn't happen with
     the default regular expression, which explicitly excludes single quotes.)

     WRAP  choice
	    Enable or disable URL wrapping. Valid values for choice are: yes, no
	    (case insensitive).  If this option is not supplied, the default be-
	    haviour is to disable wrapping.

     QUITONLAUNCH
	    Will cause urlview to quit after you launch a URL.

FILES
     /usr/local/etc/urlview/system.urlview
	    system-wide urlview configuration file

     ~/.urlview
	    urlview configuration file

ENVIRONMENT
     If the environment variable BROWSER is set  to  a	browser  command,  or  a
     colon-delimited  list  of	commands  to  try, then the specified browser is
     used. %s is replaced with the quoted url to view. If %s is not  part  of  a
     command, the url is appended to the command.

     The  BROWSER  environment	variable  is honored only if the rc-file doesn't
     contain the COMMAND option.  The rc-file provided	by  the  Debian  package
     contains a COMMAND option.

SEE ALSO
     printf(3), regcomp(3), regex(7), environ(7)

AUTHOR
     Michael Elkins <me@sigpipe.org>

     Modified  for  Debian  by	Luis  Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org> and
     Emanuele Rocca <ema@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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