NAME¶
wikipedia2text — displays
Wikipedia entries on the command line
SYNOPSIS¶
wikipedia2text [
-BCnNoOpPsSuU] [
-b prog] [
{
-c |
-i |
-I }
patt] [
-l lang]
[
-W base-url]
Query
wikipedia2text -o [
-b prog] [
-l lang]
Query
wikipedia2text [
-h]
wikipedia2text -v
wikipedia2text -r
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
wikipedia2text command.
wikipedia2text fetches and renders
Wikipedia articles using a
text-mode web-browser (currently recognises
elinks,
links2,
links,
lynx and
w3m) and display the text of the article
on STDOUT respectively in a pager.
OPTIONS¶
The program recognizes the following command line options:
- -b prog
- Use program prog as browser.
- -B
- Do not use browser configured via configuration file or
environment.
- -c patt, -I patt
- Colorize case-sensitive pattern patt in output.
- -C, -N
- Colorize output.
- -h
- Show help and a summary of options.
- -i patt
- Colorize case-insensitive pattern patt in
output.
- -l lang
- use Wikipedia in language lang. See the
Wikipedia Languages entry elsewhere in this document.
- -n
- Do not colorize output.
- -o
- Open the Wikipedia page in the browser.
- -O
- Do not open the Wikipedia page in the browser.
- -p
- Use a pager (set by default).
- -P
- Don't use a pager.
- -r
- Display a random Wikipedia article.
- -s
- Display only the summary of the Wikipedia
article.
- -S
- Display the full content of the Wikipedia article
and not only the summary.
- -u
- Just print the URL of the Wikipedia page and
exit.
- -U
- Display the full content of the Wikipedia article
and not only print the URL of the page.
- -v
- Show version number.
- -W base-url
- use base-url as base URL for wikipedia (e.g. use a
different wiki), querying this URL will happen by appending the search
term.
ENVIRONMENT¶
The following environment variables are recognized:
- ABROWSER
- Browser to use as default instead of to found or configured
web browser.
- IGNCASE
- Default value for case-sensitivity of colorizing the
output. Can be set to "true" or "false".
- LOCAL
- Default value for language in which Wikipedia should
be used. See the Wikipedia Languages entry elsewhere in this
document.
- OUTPUTURL
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should display only
the URL of the Wikipedia article by default. Can be set to
"true" or "false".
- PAGER
- Default value for pager to use. Can also be set to
"true", in which case, wikipedia2text tries to figure out
the appropriate pager, or "false", which means not to use a
pager at all.
- SHORT
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should display only
the summary of the Wikipedia article by default. Can be set to
"true" or "false".
- USEBROWSER
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should open the
Wikipedia page via openurl in the globally set default
browser, i.e. Firefox or Konqueror, by default. Can be set
to "true" or "false".
FILES¶
- $HOME/.wikipedia2textrc
- Will be sourced from wikipedia2text on startup.
Should contain variable assignments. The same variables as for the
environment are recognised.
WIKIPEDIA LANGUAGES¶
wikipedia2text currently supports the following
Wikipedia
languages:
- af
- Cape Dutch (Afrikaans)
- als
- Alemannic
- ca
- Catalan
- cs
- Czech
- da
- Danish
- de
- German
- en
- English
- eo
- Esperanto
- es
- Spanish
- fi
- Finnish
- fr
- French
- hu
- Hungarian
- ia
- Interlingua
- is
- Islandic
- it
- Italian
- la
- Latin
- lb
- Luxembourgian
- nds
- Low German
- nl
- Dutch
- nn, no
- Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål)
- pl
- Polish
- pt
- Portuguese
- rm
- Rhaeto-Romanic
- ro
- Romanian
- simple
- Simple English
- sk
- Slovak
- sl
- Slovenian
- sv
- Swedish
- tr
- Turkish
SEE ALSO¶
elinks(1),
links(1),
links2(1),
lynx(1),
w3m(1)
AUTHOR¶
wikipedia2text was written by Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>.
Patches also from Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>.
This manual page was written by Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> for the
Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL), Version 2 any later version published by the
Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
HISTORY¶
wikipedia2text was first released by Christian Brabandt on
in his blog
(link to URL http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html)
with as script named
wiki. Some users may find it useful to create
an alias with that name for speeding up the typing of a
wikipedia2text
command if no other command of that name is present.
OTHER INFO¶
The current version of
wikipedia2text should be available at
on
Christian Brabandt's website (link to URL
http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) .
