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Questions tagged [links]

Links is a family of text-mode web browsers. There are several projects based on Links. Links itself can display images, and Elinks includes a Javascript engine. If your question is about hyperlinks, hard links or symbolic link or dynamic linking, use appropriate the tag instead ([url], [hard-link], [symlink]).

Links is originally a text-mode web browser (not to be confused with , which is also a text-mode web browser and inspired the name but is an unrelated project). The current version of Links can also run in graphics mode. The fork Elinks includes a Javascript engine and can be scripted in Lua.

This tag is only about the web browser. If your question is about:

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How do I use wget with a list of URLs and their corresponding output files?

Suppose list_of_urls looks like this: http://www.url1.com/some.txt http://www.url2.com/video.mp4 I know how to use that with: wget -i list_of_urls But, what if my list_of_urls has this, and they all return proper files like PDF's or…
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command line friendly search engine, for use with Links

Are there any search engines that are friendly enough to be used in Links? Perhaps a google proxy that has no clutter, I find that Google takes a lot of navigating through the mass of links before being able to put cursor in the search bar, bing a…
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Deleting a hard link's tail file changes the change time of the head or vice versa. Why?

Note: Question although says vice versa but it really does not have any meaning since both of them point to the same inode and its not possible to say which is head and which is tail. Say I have a file hlh.txt [root@FREL ~]# fallocate -l 100…
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Activating colors in links2 (text mode)

I can't seem to see colors in links2 (text mode), even after playing with my TERM settings. The links2 manpage and README.Debian don't specifically address this issue. Also, command-line options like -html-t-text-color are not recognized in my…
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curl get all links of a web-page

I used to utilize following command to get all links of a web-page and then grep what I want: curl $URL 2>&1 | grep -o -E 'href="([^"#]+)"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | egrep $CMP-[0-9].[0-9].[0-9]$ | cut -d'-' -f3 It was doing great till yesterday. I tried…
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How to select a line of text in the archaic terminal browser - Links

I poured over this http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#subsubch-html_options But so far does not seem like there is an key to select a line in the browser running in text mode. I would like to select a line and copy it. The cool thing about…
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Does find -links count the hard links or symbolic links?

Does find -links count the hard links or symbolic links ? find -links 2
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How can I copy text from Links (webpage) to the console?

I have been building a Linux From Scratch system and I have installed the Links web browser on it, which I am running in graphical mode via DirectFB (I have not yet installed the X Window System). I am wondering if there is a way that I can copy…
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Prevent Links browser from share cookies when opened by multiple screen

By default, if open multiple screen browsing same website, it use same cookies. I don't want Links browser to write anything on disk while browsing, so that I can open multiple screen without same cookies. I've tried installing in chroot jail. It…
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cp -al not creating hard links

I want to create snapshots/hard links for my backups, using the cp -al command. While cp -al does create hardlinks when using it on my main system (Mint 18.1), where the parent directory size stays mostly the same after several snapshots, on my…
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How is /tmp linked to /var/tmp

I've already read up on the differences between /tmp and /var/tmp, so note that this is not what this question is about. When I create a file in /tmp, it shows up in /var/tmp; however, neither directory shows as a sym-link of the other: [root@l12662…
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How to troubleshoot why zathura doesn't follow web links?

I'm pretty sure that once I was able to press f, then enter a number, finally hit Enter, and the link opened in the browser (I use qutebrowser). This doesn't seem to work anymore, in that following the procedure above, step 3. doesn't trigger any…
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Actively developed text browser

I am looking for "the modern" lynx/links/elinks fork or equivalent that's actively maintained and can be considered the most advanced of the genre, please. I have looked at this already:…
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Comparing two directories based on inodes

A bit of context that I think is relevant for the appropriate solution: I have a server that has two folders; one is ingest, the other is sorted. The source of the sorted folder is the ingest folder, all directories are unique, all files are hard…
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web links broken again in thunderbird 78.11.0 on Debian

Anyone know how to get the latest Thunderbird working with the latest Firefox on Linux, so that when you click on a link in an email a browser tab opens the selected URL? In the recent Thunderbird 78.11.0 update web links stopped working again for…
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