User Commands LINKS(1)
NAME
links - lynx-like alternative character mode W browser
SYNOPSIS
links [options] URL
DESCRIPTION
links is a text mode W browser, supporting colors, correct
table rendering, background downloading, menu driven confi-
guration interface and slim code.
Frames are supported. You can have different file formats
associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are
supported via external clients.
links can handle local (file:/) or remote (http:/, ftp:/
or https:/ if there's compiled-in SL support) URLs.
OPTIONS
Most options can be set in the user interface or config
file, so usually you do not need to care about them.
-anonymous
Restrict links so that it can run on an anonymous
account. No local file browsing. No downloads. Execut-
ing of viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify
entries in association table.
-assume-codepage
Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify
its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)
-async-dns <0>/<1>
Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0). Default is on.
-base-session
Linkses are connecting together, forming sessions by
default. Normally, there's only one session with number
0. In this way, you can make him to form more sessions
at once. See also -no-connect option.
-download-dir
Default download directory. (default: actual dir)
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-download-utime <0>/<1>
Set time of download files on(1)/off(0). Default is
off.
-dump
Write a plain-text version of the given HTML document
to stdout.
-format-cache-size
Number of formatted document pages cached. (default:
5)
-ftp.anonymous-password
Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites.
-ftp-proxy
Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank.
(default: blank)
-help
Print a help screen.
-http-bugs.http10 <0>/<1>
Turn use of HTP/1.0 on(1)/off(0). Default is off.
-http-bugs.allow-blacklist <0>/<1>
Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)/off(0). Default
is on.
-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect <0>/<1>
Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible
with Netscape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.
-http-bugs.bugpost-no-keepalive <0>/<1>
Turn no keepalive connection after POST request (for
some buggy PHP databases) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.
-http-proxy
Host and port number of the HTP proxy, or blank.
(default: blank)
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-language
Language to use in user interface.
-max-connections
Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default:
10)
-max-connections-to-host
Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given
host. (default: 2)
-memory-cache-size
Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)
-width
Size of screen in characters, used in combination with
-dump. (default: 80)
-no-connect
Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connect-
ing to existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to
an existing session. See also -base-session option.
-receive-timeout
Timeout on receive. (default: 120)
-retries
Number of retries. (default: 3)
-source
Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout.
-unrestartable-receive-timeout
Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600)
-version
Print the links version number and exit.
NAVIGATION KEYS
You may optionally prefix each of this keys with a number,
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telling its repeat count (how much times to do it). You can
also re-bind those keys, altough this feature is still in
the state of testing, so undocumented. The keys you may use
for navigation are:
PGDN page down
Space
page down
PGUP page up
b page up
B page up
CursorDOWN
next link/down
CursorUP
prev link/up
^INS copy to clipboard
^C copy to clipboard
INS scroll up
^P scroll up
DEL scroll down
^N scroll down
[ scroll left
] scroll right
HOME home
END end of page
CursorRIGHT
enter link/press button
ENTER
enter link/press button
CursorLEFT
go back
d download link
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D download link
/ search in the page
? search back in the page
n find next match
N find next match backwards
f zoom actual frame
F zoom actual frame
^R reload page
g go to URL
G go to the current URL
a add a new bookmark
A add a new bookmark
s bookmark manager
S bookmark manager
q quit
Q quit
= document information
header information
\ toggle HTML source/rendered view
* toggle display of images
TAB next frame
ESC menu/escape
F9 menu
F10 file menu
EDITING KEYS
The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping
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to a URL:
CursorRIGHT
move right
CursorLEFT
move left
HOME jump to the beginning
^A jump to the beginning
END jump to the end
^E jump to the end
^INS copy to clipboard
^B copy to clipboard
^X cut to clipboard
^V paste from clipboard
ENTER
enter line
BACKSPACE
delete back character
^H delete back character
DEL delete character
^D delete character
^U delete from beginning of the line
^K delete to the end of the line
^W auto complete line
ENVIRONMENT
Homepage location (as in lynx )
LINKSXTERM
The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and
if DISPLAY is defined (default "xterm -e")
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LINKSTWTERM
The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and
if TWDISPLAY is defined (default "twterm -e")
SHEL
Used for "File/OS Shell" menu
COMSPEC
Used for "File/OS Shell" menu in DOS/Windows
FILES
Per-user config file, automatically created by links.
Its format is same as the one of user.cfg.
~/.links/html.cfg
Per-user config file, automatically created by links.
It contains HTML rendering options. Its format is same
as the one of user.cfg.
~/.links/user.cfg
Per-user config file, not overwritten while saving
links configuration. You can add your own options there
(e.g. keybindings). Each line consists from option
name (same as the command-line one, but without leading
dash and with dashes converted to underscores), space,
and its value, in quotes if it's a string. Lines which
start with # are considered as comments and skipped.
~/.links/bookmarks
Bookmarks file
~/.links/links.his
Sites history file
~/.links/socket
Internal links socket for communication between its
instances.
PLATFORMS
links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris,
IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS. Port for
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Win32 is in state of beta testing.
BUGS
Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection
stays in "Request sent" state.
Frames don't work if there're more frames with same name.
Turn them off in such case.
You can't upload large files; it takes lots of memory.
You shouldn't press '^Z' when you are in a viewer
Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas Patocka
or to links mailing list
.
LICENSE
links is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
AUTHOR
links was written by Mikulas Patocka
. See file AUTHORS in the
source tree for a list of people contributing to this pro-
ject.
The homepage of links can be found at
http:/links.browser.org/
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai
, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links
fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth-
ers). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clari-
fied and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis .
SEE ALSO
lynx(1), w3m(1), wget(1)
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWlinks
Interface Stability Volatile
NOTES
Source for links is available on http:/opensolaris.org.
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