Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Name

lynx

Synopsis

    lynx [options] [path | URL]

lynx is a “text mode” browser, for use on ASCII terminals or terminal emulators. It is particularly valuable for taking a quick look at a web page when you don’t want to wait for a graphical browser to start up on a heavily loaded system, and for use in scripts. It has an astonishing number of options.

URL: http://lynx.isc.org/.

Primary Options

-

Read arguments from standard input. Useful for long command lines and to avoid having sensitive arguments being visible with ps.

-base

For use with -source, prepend a request URL and BASE tag to text or HTML outputs.

-case

Make string searching case-sensitive.

-color

For use with the slang terminal library. Enable a default set of color control sequences that work on many terminals if the terminal description does not provide color control information.

-crawl

When used with -traversal, output each page to a separate file. When used with -dump, output is formatted as for -traversal but sent to standard output.

-dump

Send the formatted output to standard output. Useful for converting web pages to text files.

-editor= program

Use program as the external editor.

-emacskeys

Enable Emacs-style motion commands.

-ftp

Disallow FTP access.

-justify

Do text justification.

-source

Like -dump, but outputs HTML source, not formatted text.

-telnet

Do not allow telnet commands.

-term= termtype

Specify that the terminal is of type termtype. Especially useful for remote connections.

-traversal

Traverse all the HTTP ...