Thursday, 28th August 2008
links is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code. links can handle local (file://) or remote (http://, ftp:// or https:// if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs.
Frames are supported.
You can have different file formats associated with external viewers.
mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients.
$ links http://www.boards.ie
# will launch w3m from the command line and bring you to Boards.ie
More help can be found by typing man links into the command line.
If you know the URL of a file that you want to download, there is no need to load up a browser, browse to the location of the file and then download the file. You can download the file directly from the command line using wget.