NAME

       urlview — extract URLs, launch associated program

SYNOPSIS

       urlview [-line] [file]…

DESCRIPTION

       Scans  each  file  (standard  input  stream if "-", the default) for URLs, then shows them in a curses(3)
       menu.  (If the standard output stream is not a teletype: writes them, one per line, thereto.)

       The menu allows viewing, searching, editing, and opening the URLs in the appropriate program.
       URLs are shown in order, but multiple instances of the same URL are deduplicated case-insensitively!

       If -line is given, where line is a decimal integer, then the first URL  at  or  following  that  line  is
       selected automatically, instead of the first.

   Bindings
       ↓, j, Scroll down  Select next URL.
       ↑, k, Scroll up    Select previous URL.
       e                  Edit selected URL, confirm with ↵.
       ↵, ␣               If EDIT is yes: run e.  Then open selected URL with COMMAND or $BROWSER.
       Mouse button 1     Select the URL under the cursor, then ↵.
       [0-9]…             Jump to numbered URL, confirm with ↵.  URLs are numbered from 1.
       Home, =            Select first URL.
       End, *, G          Select last URL.
       Page Down, ^F      Next page.
       Page Up, ^B        Previous page.
       /                  Enter regex to search URLs forward by; confirm with ↵.
       ?                  Enter regex to search URLs backward by; confirm with ↵.
       n                  Search URLs forward with saved search (prompt if none).
       N                  Search URLs backward with saved search (prompt if none).
       ^L, ^G             Redraw screen.
       q, x, h            Exit.

       Full  mutt(1)-style line editing is supported (incl. ^I (Tab) to erase to end of line).  During entry, ^G
       cancels.

ENVIRONMENT

       BROWSER        Overrides the built-in default for COMMAND if not specified in “Configuration”,
       URLVIEW_DEBUG  Behave as-if the standard output stream weren't a teletype.

FILES

       The first extant of ~/.urlview, /etc/urlview/system.urlview is read.  In this case, the defaults  may  be
       overridden through a simple line-based "setting whitespace value" format.  Empty lines and lines starting
       with ‘#’es are ignored.

   Configuration
       REGEXP ere       Use  the  specified  case-insensitive  extended regular expression to match URLs.  "\n",
                        "\r", "\t", and "\f" are replaced with the new-line, the carriage return, the horizontal
                        tab, and the form feed, respectively.  The default is:
                            ((http|https|ftp|gopher|gemini|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]*|(www|ftp)[0-9]?\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]?[^, <>"\t]*[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]

       COMMAND prog     Run shell program, subject to VIA, when an URL is opened.
                        prog may contain multiple programs, delimited by ‘:’s; they are tried in order until one
                        exits 0.
                        Shadows $BROWSER.  Defaults to "/etc/urlview/url_handler.sh".
       VIA argument     Run prog, followed by a space and the quoted  URL.   If  prog  contains  "%s",  that  is
                        instead replaced with the quoted URL.
                        This may leave the URL visible in to other users in /proc.  This is the default.
       VIA environment  Set the URL environment variable to the URL, then run prog verbatim.
       VIA pipe         Run prog verbatim with a line containing the URL piped via the standard input stream.

       These two are only useful with VIA= argument:
       BROWSER          Unshadows $BROWSER even if COMMAND is set.
       EXPERT           Allows  's in COMMAND: the URL to be opened is substituted as a quoted word using '.  If
                        prog is, for example "w3m '%s' -N", this would defeat this quoting, and run the  URL  as
                        code.   If  you're  sure  your  progs  don't  quote  the  URL  —  for  example  "lynx %s
                        -cookie_file='/tmp/lynx cookies'" — it's safe to enable EXPERT.

       EDIT no|yes      Edit the selected URL before opening it.  The default is no.
       WRAP no|yes      When at the last URL, allow ↓ to go to the first, and vice versa.  The default is no.
       MOUSE yes|no     Enable mouse support.  The default is yes.

       yes, no, argument, environment, and pipe are case-insensitive.

EXIT STATUS

       1 if no URLs were found, the effective COMMAND contained a ' and EXPERT wasn't enabled with VIA=argument.
       WRAP/EDIT/MOUSE/VIA received an invalid value, ere isn't a valid ERE, an unknown setting  was  specified,
       or a file couldn't be opened.

SEE ALSO

       mutt(1), curses(3), regex(7), url(7)

urlview-ng 1c-1                                 December 11, 2023                                     URLVIEW(1)