NAME

       wikipedia2text — displays Wikipedia entries on the command line

SYNOPSIS

       wikipedia2text  [-BCnNoOpPsSuU]   [-b  prog]   [  {-c  | -i  | -I }  patt]  [-l lang]  [-W
       base-url]  Query

       wikipedia2text  -o [-b prog]  [-l lang]  Query

       wikipedia2text [-h]

       wikipedia2text  -v

       wikipedia2text  -r

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the wikipedia2text command.

       wikipedia2text fetches and  renders  Wikipedia  articles  using  a  text-mode  web-browser
       (currently  recognises  elinks,  links2,  links, lynx and w3m) and display the text of the
       article on STDOUT respectively in a pager.

OPTIONS

       The program recognizes the following command line options:

       -b prog   Use program prog as browser.

       -B        Do not use browser configured via configuration file or environment.

       -c patt, -I patt
                 Colorize case-sensitive pattern patt in output.

       -C, -N    Colorize output.

       -h        Show help and a summary of options.

       -i patt   Colorize case-insensitive pattern patt in output.

       -l lang   use Wikipedia in language lang. See the Wikipedia Languages entry  elsewhere  in
                 this document.

       -n        Do not colorize output.

       -o        Open the Wikipedia page in the browser.

       -O        Do not open the Wikipedia page in the browser.

       -p        Use a pager (set by default).

       -P        Don't use a pager.

       -r        Display a random Wikipedia article.

       -s        Display only the summary of the Wikipedia article.

       -S        Display the full content of the Wikipedia article and not only the summary.

       -u        Just print the URL of the Wikipedia page and exit.

       -U        Display  the full content of the Wikipedia article and not only print the URL of
                 the page.

       -v        Show version number.

       -W base-url
                 use base-url as base URL for wikipedia (e.g. use  a  different  wiki),  querying
                 this URL will happen by appending the search term.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables are recognized:

       ABROWSER  Browser to use as default instead of to found or configured web browser.

       IGNCASE   Default  value  for  case-sensitivity  of  colorizing  the output. Can be set to
                 "true" or "false".

       LOCAL     Default value for language in which Wikipedia should be used. See the  Wikipedia
                 Languages entry elsewhere in this document.

       OUTPUTURL Determines,  if  wikipedia2text  should  display  only  the URL of the Wikipedia
                 article by default. Can be set to "true" or "false".

       PAGER     Default value for pager to use. Can also  be  set  to  "true",  in  which  case,
                 wikipedia2text  tries  to  figure  out  the appropriate pager, or "false", which
                 means not to use a pager at all.

       SHORT     Determines, if wikipedia2text should display only the summary of  the  Wikipedia
                 article by default. Can be set to "true" or "false".

       USEBROWSER
                 Determines,  if wikipedia2text should open the Wikipedia page via openurl in the
                 globally set default browser, i.e. Firefox or Konqueror, by default. Can be  set
                 to "true" or "false".

FILES

       $HOME/.wikipedia2textrc
                 Will  be  sourced  from  wikipedia2text  on  startup.  Should  contain  variable
                 assignments. The same variables as for the environment are recognised.

WIKIPEDIA LANGUAGES

       wikipedia2text currently supports the following Wikipedia languages:

       af        Cape Dutch (Afrikaans)

       als       Alemannic

       ca        Catalan

       cs        Czech

       da        Danish

       de        German

       en        English

       eo        Esperanto

       es        Spanish

       fi        Finnish

       fr        French

       hu        Hungarian

       ia        Interlingua

       is        Islandic

       it        Italian

       la        Latin

       lb        Luxembourgian

       nds       Low German

       nl        Dutch

       nn, no    Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål)

       pl        Polish

       pt        Portuguese

       rm        Rhaeto-Romanic

       ro        Romanian

       simple    Simple English

       sk        Slovak

       sl        Slovenian

       sv        Swedish

       tr        Turkish

SEE ALSO

       elinks(1), links(1), links2(1), lynx(1), w3m(1)

AUTHOR

       wikipedia2text was written by Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>. Patches also  from  Axel
       Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>.

       This  manual  page was written by Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> for the Debian system
       (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
       document  under  the  terms  of  the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2 any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

HISTORY

       wikipedia2text  was  first  released  by  Christian  Brabandt  on in his blog (link to URL
       http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html)   with  as  script  named
       wiki.  Some users may find it useful to create an alias with that name for speeding up the
       typing of a wikipedia2text command if no other command of that name is present.

OTHER INFO

       The current version of wikipedia2text should  be  available  at  on  Christian  Brabandt's
       website (link to URL http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) .

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