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Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

From	The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)
Date	2021-02-25 13:50 +0100
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On 2021-02-25 at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote:

> Darac's answer to answer to a previous question led me to try
>
>> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2Bintitle%3Afaq%20site%3Adebian.org
> which gave me the content I needed, but not in a convenient format.
> 
> I would like to pipe search results to a text processor.
> Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m".
> Documentation for "w3m" was more use user friendly, so I installed it.
> 
> Following a man page example I got:
> 
>> richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net
>> bash: $: command not found

You don't need to include the '$ ' at the start of the command.

When someone presents a command in the form

$ command --options arguments /path/to/filename

or

# command --options arguments /path/to/filename

the $ or # represents the shell prompt; a shell prompt ending in '$'
typically represents a command being run as an ordinary user, and a
shell prompt ending in '#' typically represents one being run as the
root user. The reason for including these is so that when one is
presenting both commands and command output, it's clear at a glance
which lines are commands and which are not.

Strip those parts out of your command, and see what you get.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

Thread

Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 13:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 13:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-25 14:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-25 14:30 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 15:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:40 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2021-02-25 14:50 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-02-25 23:50 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2021-02-25 15:00 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) "James B" <portoteacher80@fastmail.com> - 2021-02-25 15:50 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 16:00 +0100
            Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 16:10 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) "James B" <portoteacher80@fastmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:20 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 16:40 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 16:50 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 17:20 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-02-25 23:50 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 13:30 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-02-26 14:50 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-26 01:30 +0100
            Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2021-02-25 16:10 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-25 16:20 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-25 14:10 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:40 +0100

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