LINKS(1)LINKS(1)NAMElinks - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
SYNOPSISlinks [options] URL
DESCRIPTIONlinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, correct table ren‐
dering, background downloading, menu driven configuration 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 SSL support) URLs.
OPTIONS
Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usu‐
ally 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. Executing of viewers is
allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association ta‐
ble.
-assume-codepage <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 <number>
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 <path>
Default download directory. (default: actual dir)
-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 <num>
Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5)
-ftp.anonymous-password <password>
Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites.
-ftp-proxy <host:port>
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 HTTP/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 Net‐
scape) on(1)/off(0). Default is off.
-http-bugs.bug_post-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:port>
Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank. (default:
blank)
-language <langname>
Language to use in user interface.
-max-connections <max>
Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default: 10)
-max-connections-to-host <max>
Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host.
(default: 2)
-memory-cache-size <Kbytes>
Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)
-width <size>
Size of screen in characters, used in combination with -dump.
(default: 80)
-no-connect
Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to
existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to an existing
session. See also -base-session option.
-receive-timeout <sec>
Timeout on receive. (default: 120)
-retries <retry>
Number of retries. (default: 3)
-source
Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout.
-unrestartable-receive-timeout <sec>
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, 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 undocu‐
mented. 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
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 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
CONFIG_DIR
The location of ".links/"
WWW_HOME
Homepage location (as in lynx )
LINKS_XTERM
The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and
if DISPLAY is defined (default "xterm -e")
LINKS_TWTERM
The command to run when selecting "File/New window" and
if TWDISPLAY is defined (default "twterm -e")
SHELL Used for "File/OS Shell" menu
COMSPEC
Used for "File/OS Shell" menu in DOS/Windows
FILES
~/.links/links.cfg
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 con‐
sidered as comments and skipped.
~/.links/bookmarks
Bookmarks file
~/.links/links.his
Sites history file
~/.links/socket
Internal links socket for communication between
its instances.
PLATFORMSlinks is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS.
Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing.
BUGS
Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connec‐
tion 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
<mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> or to links mailing
list <links-list@linuxfromscratch.org>.
LICENSElinks 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.
AUTHORlinks was written by Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.kar‐
lin.mff.cuni.cz>. See file AUTHORS in the source tree
for a list of people contributing to this project.
The homepage of links can be found at
http://links.browser.org/
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai
<grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown
links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
used by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop.
Extended, clarified and made more up-to-date by Petr
Baudis <pasky@ji.cz>.
SEE ALSOlynx(1), w3m(1), wget(1)ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Availability │ web/browser/links │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ Volatile │
└────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
NOTES
Source for links is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Oct, 2001 LINKS(1)
