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/system.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:

              /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 inside 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 behaviour is to disable wrapping.

FILES

       /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@cs.hmc.edu>.

       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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