On 02/25/2021 06:50 AM, IL Ka wrote:
I would like to pipe search results to a text processor.
Do you want rendered results or plain HTML ?
In latter case you need ``wget``
I wish to be free of all HTML artifacts.
If dealing with only a single page Cntrl-A Cntrl-C and pasting into
Pluma gives desired format.
Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m".
There is also a browser named "lynx".
Not sure which one suits your needs best.
Try them all!
Can someone recommend a newbie friendly intro to any of them.
Man pages can be less than "useful: to 1st time user.
> richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net
> bash: $: command not found
"$" is part of your prompt, do not type it
Blaming that one on caffeine free diet ;/
Thank you.
