urlview - URL extractor/launcher SYNOPSIS

urlview <filename> [ <filename> ... ] DESCRIPTION

CONFIGURATION

˜/.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 <regular expression to use for URL matching>

(((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^' \t<>"]+|(www|web|w3)\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' \t.,;<>"\):]

COMMAND <command to launch with URL>

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 url_handler.sh '%s' another possibility would be Netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' X-Nasty-Url: http://www.`program_to_execute_as_you`.com If you pass this URL to your shell, it could have nasty consequences. FILES

/etc/urlview/system.urlview

system-wide urlview configuration file ˜/.urlview

urlview configuration file SEE ALSO

regcomp(3) AUTHOR

Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>. Modified for Debian by Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>. Modified for SuSE by Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and Stepan Kasal <kasal@suse.cz>.