URLSCAN(1) General Commands Manual URLSCAN(1)
NAME
urlscan - browse the URLs in an email message from a terminal
SYNOPSIS
urlscan [options] < message
urlscan [options] message
DESCRIPTION
urlscan accepts a single email message on standard input, then displays a terminal-based list of the URLs in the given message. Selecting
a URL will invoke sensible-browser(1) on it (and hence any browser specified in the BROWSER environment variable).
urlscan is primarily intended to be used with the mutt (1) mailreader, but it should work well with any terminal-based mail program.
urlscan is similar to urlview(1), but has the following additional features:
1. Support for more message encodings, such as quoted-printable and base64.
2. Extraction and display of the context surrounding each URL.
OPTIONS
-b, --background
Run the Web browser in the background, so you can select another URL without closing it (this will not work with terminal-based Web
browsers such as lynx, links, or w3m).
-c, --compact
Display a simple list of the extracted URLs, instead of showing the context of each URL.
MUTT INTEGRATION
To integrate urlscan with mutt, include the following two commands in ~/.muttrc:
macro index,pager cb "<pipe-message> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"
macro attach,compose cb "<pipe-entry> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"
Once these lines are in your mutt configuration file, pressing Control-b will allow you to browse and open the URLs in the currently
selected message.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/urlscan/README, sensible-browser(1), urlview(1), mutt(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>.
December 10, 2006 URLSCAN(1)