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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
       /usr/local/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 spec-
	      ified  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 inside the URL are handled properly.	(Note that this shouldn't hap-
       pen with the default regular expression, which explicitly excludes sin-
       gle 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.

       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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