W3M
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NAME
w3m - a text based Web browser and pager
SYNOPSIS
w3m
[options] [URL or filename]
Use "w3m -h" to display a complete list of current options.
DESCRIPTION
w3m
is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and
Japanese help files and an option menu and can be configured to
use either language. It will display hypertext markup language
(HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local
system, as well as files residing on remote systems. It can
display HTML tables and frames.
In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same manner
as "more" or "less".
Current versions of
w3m
run on
Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800)
and on
Microsoft Windows 9x/NT.
OPTIONS
At start up, w3m will load any local
file or remote URL specified at the command
line. For help with runtime options, press "H"
while running w3m.
Command line options are:
- -t tab
-
set tab width
- -r
-
ignore backspace effect
- -l line
-
# of preserved line (default 10000)
- -B
-
load bookmark
- -bookmark file
-
specify bookmark file
- -T type
-
specify content-type
- -m
-
internet message mode
- -v
-
visual startup mode
- -M
-
monochrome display
- -F
-
automatically render frame
- -dump
-
dump formatted page into stdout
- -cols width
-
specify column width (used with -dump)
- -ppc count
-
specify the number of pixels per character (default 8.0)
Larger values will make tables narrower.
- -dump_source
-
dump page source into stdout
- -dump_head
-
dump response of HEAD request into stdout
- -dump_both
-
dump HEAD and source into stdout
- -dump_extra
-
dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
- -post file
-
use POST method with file content
- -header string
-
insert string as a header
- +<num>
-
goto <num> line
- -num
-
show line number
- -no-proxy
-
don't use proxy
- -no-mouse
-
don't use mouse
- -cookie
-
use cookie.
- -no-cookie
-
don't use cookie
- -S
-
squeeze multiple blank lines
- -W
-
toggle wrap search mode
- -X
-
don't use termcap init/deinit
- -title [=TERM]
-
set buffer name to terminal title string.
If TERM is specified, use the TERM style title configuration.
- -o opt=value
-
assign value to config option
- -show-option
-
show all available config option
- -config file
-
specify config file
- -help
-
show usage
- -version
-
show w3m version
- -debug
-
DO NOT USE
EXAMPLES
- To use w3m as a pager:
-
$ ls | w3m
- To use w3m to translate HTML files:
-
$ cat foo.html | w3m -T text/html
- or
-
$ cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html >foo.txt
NOTES
This is the
w3m
0.2.1 Release.
Additional information about
w3m
may be found on its Japanese language Web site located at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.ja.html
or on its English version of the site at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.en.html
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
w3m
has incorporated code from several sources.
Hans J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics
have the copyright of the GC library comes with w3m package.
Users have contributed patches and suggestions over time.
AUTHOR
Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp>
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- NOTES
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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- AUTHOR
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Time: 19:49:17 GMT, April 27, 2011