WIKIPEDIA2TEXT(1)					      General Commands Manual						 WIKIPEDIA2TEXT(1)

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 Bokmal)

       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 ver-
       sion 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/~chris-
       bra/wiki) .

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