Elinks or Lynx?
Please, state your reasons for your terminal browser. Why are you using Lynx or Elinks? How do they help you in programming? ...
Please, state your reasons for your terminal browser. Why are you using Lynx or Elinks? How do they help you in programming? ...
I wrote a shell script to convert HTML source to plain text using lynx. Here it is: #!/bin/sh if [ -f = "/usr/bin/lynx" ] then if [ -f = "$1" ] then lynx -dump $1 > $2 else echo "File $1 does not exist!" fi else echo "Lynx is not installed!" fi Now, although lynx exists in the right direct...
I have a bash script mystuff containing a line like lynx -dump http://example.com >tmpfile and the script works fine, including this part, except when I run it non-interactively: $ ./mystuff & [1] 3712 $ jobs [1]+ Stopped The job is stopped. I find that lynx is the culprit. Even running this command directly from the bash prompt ca...
When I use "lynx" via the terminal I believe it is using an symbolic link, but my Google searches have failed to show me how to determine the symbolic path value. That is, I would like to determine the symbolic link value for "lynx", and a few others, e.g. wget, etc. Thanks for any insights and suggestions. P.S. I am using the termi...
I am trying to post a file to a URL via the MS-DOS command prompt. I am using the Lynx browser to do this. I am able to post my file just fine, but all of the newline characters are removed by Lynx before creating the POST request. Is it possible to post a file via command line without having the newline characters removed? The comma...
Which CPAN module would you recommend for turning HTML into formatted plain text? One strict requirement is that the module must handle Unicode characters. ...
Is there anyway to have a pound sign display correctly using Lynx text only browser? using ampersand-pound-semicolon it just shows a u with an accent on top. using £, nothing displays. Thanks. ...
Hi, I have an execute(String cmd) in a jsp script that calls the exec method from the Runtime class. It works when I call a local command, like a php script stored on the server. for example: /usr/bin/php /path/to/php/script arg1 arg2 So I guess my execute command is ok, since it is working with that. Now when I try to call lynx, the...
I want to create a command-line script for Cygwin/Bash that logs into a site, navigates to a specific page and compares it with the results of the last run. So far, I have it working with Lynx like so: ----snpipped, just setting variables---- echo "# Command logfile created by Lynx 2.8.5rel.5 (29 Oct 2005) ----snipped the recorded keyst...
Just curious, since google search uses a lot of JS and AJAX, would it ever be possible to make instant search work on a text browser like lynx? if yes, what would it take? ...