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NAME

       w3m - a text based web browser and pager

SYNOPSIS

       w3m [OPTION]... [ file | URL ]...

DESCRIPTION

       w3m  is  a text based browser which can display local or remote web pages as well as other
       documents.  It is able to process HTML tables and frames but  it  ignores  JavaScript  and
       Cascading  Style  Sheets.  w3m can also serve as a pager for text files named as arguments
       or passed on standard input, and as a general purpose directory browser.

       w3m organizes its content in buffers or tabs, allowing easy navigation between them.  With
       the  w3m-img  extension  installed,  w3m  can  display  inline graphics in web pages.  And
       whenever w3m's HTML rendering capabilities do not meet your needs, the target URL  can  be
       handed over to a graphical browser with a single command.

       For help with runtime options, press “H” while running w3m.

ARGUMENTS

       When  given  one  or  more  command  line  arguments, w3m will handle targets according to
       content type.  For web, w3m gets this information  from  HTTP  headers;  for  relative  or
       absolute file system paths, it relies on filenames.

       With  no  argument,  w3m  expects data from standard input and assumes “text/plain” unless
       another MIME type is given by the user.

       If provided with no target and no fallback target (see for instance option -v below),  w3m
       will exit with usage information.

OPTIONS

       Command line options are introduced with a single “-” character and may take an argument.

   General options
       -B     with no other target defined, use the bookmark page for startup

       -H     use high-intensity colors

       -M     monochrome display

       -no-mouse
              deactivate mouse support

       -num   display each line's number

       -N     distribute multiple command line arguments to tabs.  By default, a stack of buffers
              is used

       -ppc num
              width of num pixels per character.  Range of 4.0  to  32.0,  default  8.0.   Larger
              values will make tables narrower.  (Implementation not verified)

       -ppl num
              height  of  num  pixels  per  line.   Range  of  4.0  to 64.0.  (Implementation not
              verified)

       -title, -title=TERM
              use the buffer name as terminal title string.  With specified TERM, this  sets  the
              title configuration style accordingly

       -v     with no other target defined, welcome users with a built-in page

       -W     toggle wrapping mode in searches

       -X     do not initialize/deinitialize the terminal

       +num   go  to  line  num;  only  effective  for num larger than the number of lines in the
              terminal

   Browser options
       -cols num
              with stdout as destination; HTML is rendered to lines of num characters

       -cookie, -no-cookie
              use stored cookies and accept new ones, or do neither

       -F     render frames

       -graph, -no-graph
              use or do not use graphic characters for drawing HTML table and frame borders

       -header string
              append string to  the  HTTP(S)  request.   Expected  to  match  the  header  syntax
              Variable: Value

       -m     Render the body of Usenet messages according to the header “Content-type”

       -no-proxy
              do not use proxy

       -post file
              use  POST  method  to  upload  data  defined  in  file.   The  syntax to be used is
              var1=value1[&var2=value2]...

       -4     IPv4 only.  Corresponds to dns_order=4 in configuration files

       -6     IPv6 only.  Corresponds to dns_order=6 in configuration files

       -insecure
              use insecure SSL config options, alias for -o  ssl_cipher=ALL:eNULL:@SECLEVEL=0  -o
              ssl_min_version=all -o ssl_forbid_method= -o ssl_verify_server=0

   Text pager options
       -l num number  of lines preserved internally when receiving plain text from stdin (default
              10,000)

       -r     use caret notation to display special escape characters (such as  ANSI  escapes  or
              nroff-style  backspaces  for  bold and underlined characters) instead of processing
              them

       -s     squeeze multiple blank lines into one

       -t num set tab width to num columns.  No effect on stdout

   Data type/encoding options
       -I charset
              user defined character encoding of input data

       -O charset
              user defined character encoding of output data

       -T type
              explicit characterization of input data by MIME type

   Options for data output, followed by immediate exit
       -dump  dump rendered page into stdout.  Set implicitly when output is directed to  a  file
              or pipe

       -dump_source
              dump the page's source code into stdout

       -dump_head
              dump response of a HEAD request for a URL into stdout

       -dump_both
              dump HEAD, and source code for a URL into stdout

       -dump_extra
              dump HEAD, source code, and extra information for a URL into stdout

       -help  show a summary of compiled-in features and command line options

       -show-option
              show all available configuration options

       -version
              show the version of w3m

   Options for overriding default settings and resources
       -bookmark file
              use file instead of the default bookmark.html file

       -config file
              use file instead of the default configuration file

       -o option=value
              modify one configuration item with an explicitly given value; without option=value,
              equivalent to -show-option

       -debug use debug mode (only for debugging)

       -reqlog
              log headers of HTTP communication in file ~/.w3m/request.log

EXAMPLES

   Pager-like usage
       Combine snippets of HTML code and preview the page
              $ cat header.html footer.html | w3m -T text/html

       Compare two files using tabs
              $ w3m -N config.old config

   Browser-like usage
       Display web content in monochrome terminal
              $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net

       Display embedded graphics
              $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE http://w3m.sourceforge.net

       Display content from Usenet
              $ w3m -m nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.os.linux.networking

       Upload data for a URL using the POST method
              $ w3m -post - http://example.com/form.php <<<'a=0&b=1'

   Filter-like usage
       Convert an HTML file to plain text with a defined line length
              $ w3m -cols 40 foo.html > foo.txt

       Output the bookmarks page as text with an appended list of links
              $ w3m -B -o display_link_number=1 > out.txt

       Conversion of file format and character encoding
              $ w3m -T text/html -I EUC-JP -O UTF-8 < foo.html > foo.txt

   Start with no input
       Welcome users with a built-in page
              $ w3m -v

ENVIRONMENT

       w3m recognises the environment variable WWW_HOME as defining a fallback target for use  if
       it is invoked without one.

       If  the  W3M_DIR  environment variable is set to a directory name, w3m will store its user
       files there instead of under the ~/.w3m directory.

FILES

       The default locations of some files are listed below. These locations can be  altered  via
       the W3M_DIR environment variable.

       ~/.w3m/bookmark.html
              default bookmark file

       ~/.w3m/config
              user defined configuration file; overrides /etc/w3m/config

       ~/.w3m/cookie
              cookie jar; written on exit, read on launch

       ~/.w3m/history
              browser history - visited files and URLs

       ~/.w3m/keymap
              user defined key bindings; overrides default key bindings

       ~/.w3m/mailcap
              external viewer configuration file

       ~/.w3m/menu
              user defined menu; overrides default menu

       ~/.w3m/mime.types
              MIME types file

       ~/.w3m/mouse
              user defined mouse settings

       ~/.w3m/passwd
              password and username file

       ~/.w3m/pre_form
              contains predefined values to fill recurrent HTML forms

SEE ALSO

       README  and  example  files are to be found in the doc directory of your w3m installation.
       Recent  information  about  w3m  may  be   found   on   the   project's   web   pages   at
       ⟨http://w3m.sourceforge.net

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       w3m  has  incorporated  code  from  several  sources.   Users have contributed patches and
       suggestions over time.

AUTHOR

       Akinori ITO ⟨aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp