urlview - URL extractor/launcher
urlview <filename> [ <filename> ... ]
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.
urlview attempts to read ~/.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>
urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs from the specified text files. \r, \t, \n and \f are all converted to their normal printf(2) meanings. The default REGEXP is
(((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)'
NOTE: you should always put single quotes ('') around usage of
``%s'' and never let the REGEXP to match any string containing
a single quote (note [⁁'...] in the default REGEXP)
to avoid characters in the selected URL from being interpreted
by your shell. For example, I could put the following URL in my email
messages:
X-Nasty-Url: http://www.`program_to_execute_as_you`.com
If you pass this URL to your shell, it could have nasty consequences.
system-wide urlview configuration file
urlview configuration file
regcomp(3)
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>.