W3M - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 1
Updated : 2016-08-06
Source : w3m 0.5.3

NAMEw3m − a text based web browser and pager

SYNOPSISw3m [OPTION]... [ file | URL ]...

DESCRIPTION w3m is a text based browser which can display local or remote web pages as well as other documents. It is able to process HTML tables and frames but it ignores JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. w3m can also serve as a pager for text files named as arguments or passed on standard input, and as a general purpose directory browser. w3m organizes its content in buffers or tabs, allowing easy navigation between them. With the w3m-img extension installed, w3m can display inline graphics in web pages. And whenever w3m's HTML rendering capabilities do not meet your needs, the target URL can be handed over to a graphical browser with a single command. For help with runtime options, press H while running w3m.

ARGUMENTSWhen given one or more command line arguments, w3m will handle targets according to content type. For web, w3m gets this information from HTTP headers; for relative or absolute file system paths, it relies on filenames. With no argument, w3m expects data from standard input and assumes text/plain unless another MIME type is given by the user. If provided with no target and no fallback target (see for instance option −v below), w3m will exit with usage information.

OPTIONSCommand line options are introduced with a single character and may take an argument.

General options−B  with no other target defined, use the bookmark page for startup −M  monochrome display −no-mouse  deactivate mouse support −num  display each line's number −N  distribute multiple command line arguments to tabs. By default, a stack of buffers is used −ppc num  width of num pixels per character. Range of 4.0 to 32.0, default 8.0. Larger values will make tables narrower. (Implementation not verified) −ppl num  height of num pixels per line. Range of 4.0 to 64.0. (Implementation not verified) −title, −title=TERM  use the buffer name as terminal title string. With specified TERM, this sets the title configuration style accordingly −v  with no other target defined, welcome users with a built-in page −W  toggle wrapping mode in searches −X  do not initialize/deinitialize the terminal +num  go to line num; only effective for num larger than the number of lines in the terminal

Browser options−cols num  with stdout as destination; HTML is rendered to lines of num characters −cookie, −no-cookie  use stored cookies and accept new ones, or do neither −F  render frames −graph, −no-graph  use or do not use graphic characters for drawing HTML table and frame borders −header string  append string to the HTTP(S) request. Expected to match the header syntax Variable: Value −m  Render the body of Usenet messages according to the header Content-type −no-proxy  do not use proxy −post file  use POST method to upload data defined in file. The syntax to be used is var1=value1[&var2=value2]... −4  IPv4 only. Corresponds to dns_order=4 in configuration files −6  IPv6 only. Corresponds to dns_order=6 in configuration files

Text pager options−l num  number of lines preserved internally when receiving plain text from stdin (default 10,000) −r  use caret notation to display special escape characters (such as ANSI escapes or nroff-style backspaces for bold and underlined characters) instead of processing them −s  squeeze multiple blank lines into one −t num  set tab width to num columns. No effect on stdout

Data type/encoding options−I charset  user defined character encoding of input data −O charset  user defined character encoding of output data −T type  explicit characterization of input data by MIME type

Options for data output, followed by immediate exit−dump  dump rendered page into stdout. Set implicitly when output is directed to a file or pipe −dump_source  dump the page's source code into stdout −dump_head  dump response of a HEAD request for a URL into stdout −dump_both  dump HEAD, and source code for a URL into stdout −dump_extra  dump HEAD, source code, and extra information for a URL into stdout −help  show a summary of compiled-in features and command line options −show-option  show all available configuration options −version  show the version of w3m

Options for overriding default settings and resources−bookmark file  use file instead of the default bookmark.html file −config file  use file instead of the default configuration file −debug  DO NOT USE −o option=value  modify one configuration item with an explicitly given value; without option=value, equivalent to −show-option −reqlog  log headers of HTTP communication in file ~/.w3m/request.log

EXAMPLES

Pager-like usageCombine snippets of HTML code and preview the page  $ cat header.html footer.html | w3m −T text/htmlCompare two files using tabs  $ w3m −N config.old config

Browser-like usageDisplay web content in monochrome terminal  $ w3m −M http://w3m.sourceforge.netDisplay embedded graphics  $ w3m −o auto_image=TRUE http://w3m.sourceforge.netDisplay content from Usenet  $ w3m −m nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.os.linux.networkingUpload data for a URL using the POST method  $ w3m −post − http://example.com/form.php <<<'a=0&b=1'

Filter-like usageConvert an HTML file to plain text with a defined line length  $ w3m −cols 40 foo.html > foo.txtOutput the bookmarks page as text with an appended list of links  $ w3m −B −o display_link_number=1 > out.txtConversion of file format and character encoding  $ w3m −T text/html −I EUC-JP −O UTF-8 < foo.html > foo.txt

Start with no inputWelcome users with a built-in page  $ w3m −v

ENVIRONMENTw3m recognises the environment variable WWW_HOME as defining a fallback target for use if it is invoked without one.

FILES~/.w3m/bookmark.html  default bookmark file ~/.w3m/config  user defined configuration file; overrides /etc/w3m/config ~/.w3m/cookie  cookie jar; written on exit, read on launch ~/.w3m/history  browser history - visited files and URLs ~/.w3m/keymap  user defined key bindings; overrides default key bindings ~/.w3m/mailcap  external viewer configuration file ~/.w3m/menu  user defined menu; overrides default menu ~/.w3m/mime.types  MIME types file ~/.w3m/mouse  user defined mouse settings ~/.w3m/passwd  password and username file ~/.w3m/pre_form  contains predefined values to fill recurrent HTML forms

SEE ALSOREADME and example files are to be found in the doc directory of your w3m installation. Recent information about w3m may be found on the project's web pages at

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSw3m has incorporated code from several sources. Users have contributed patches and suggestions over time.

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