LINKS
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS NAVIGATION KEYS EDITING KEYS ENVIRONMENT FILES PLATFORMS BUGS LICENSE AUTHOR SEE ALSO
links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
links [options? URL
links is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, correct table rendering, 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.
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. Executing 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
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)
-download-utime
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.
-fake-referer
Send always this HTTP referer. Has a mean only with -http-referer 3.
-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
Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.
-http-bugs.allow-blacklist
Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)?/off(0). Default is on.
-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect
Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible with Netscape) on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.
-http-bugs.bug_post-no-keepalive
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 HTTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)
-http-referer
Turn sending of HTTP referer. Either never(0), true(1), same URL(2)? or fake(3)?. (default: none)
-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)
-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
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)
-user-agent
Change the User Agent. That means identification string, which is sent to HTTP server, when a document is requested. Default is
-version
Print the links version number and exit.
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. See linkskeys(5) for complete documentation about keybindings and more complete list of keys bound by default. 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
F4
edit textarea in external editor (broken)
^T
edit textarea in external editor (broken)
/
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
^K
reload cookies from /.links/cookies
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
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
CONFIG_DIR
The location of
WWW_HOME
Homepage location (as in lynx )
LINKS_XTERM
The command to run when selecting DISPLAY is defined (default
LINKS_TWTERM
The command to run when selecting TWDISPLAY is defined (default
SHELL
Used for
COMSPEC
Used for
/.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 considered as comments and skipped.
/.links/bookmarks
Bookmarks file
/.links/cookies
Cookies file
/.links/links.his
Sites history file
/.links/socket
Internal links socket for communication between its instances.
links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and RISC OS. Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing.
Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection stays in
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
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.
links was written by Mikulas Patocka 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 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
linkskeys(5), lynx(1), __w3m__(1)?, wget(1)
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