WEB(1) WEB(1)
NAME
web, wmail - handle web page, mail message for plumber
SYNOPSIS
web url ...
wmail address
DESCRIPTION
Web opens each of the named urls in a new web browser win-
dow. Any of the urls may be relative paths to files in the
file system; they will be translated into file:// URLs
before being passed to the web browser.
Web uses the web browser's -remote option command-line
option, which requires an instance of the web browser to be
already running. The choice of browser is determined by the
$BROWSER environment variable, which should be the name of
the executable for your choice of web browser. The default
is firefox. Since the various browsers all use different
syntaxes in their -remote options, the executable name is
inspected to determine the type of browser. The supported
browsers are Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, and
Mozilla. When possible, web opens each URL in a new tab
rather than a new window.
When run under Mac OS X, $BROWSER should be set to camino ,
firefox , or safari. Web uses AppleScript to talk to the
browser. If $BROWSER is not set, web looks for Firefox in
/Applications/Firefox.app and uses it if found; otherwise it
uses Safari.
Wmail starts the composition of a new mail message to
address.
The choice of mailer is determined by the $MAILER environ-
ment variable. The supported mailers are:
browser
invoke the mailer via a mailto:// URL passed to web
Web and wmail are invoked as start commands in the
plumber(4)'s rules for opening web pages and writing mail
messages.
FILES
/usr/local/plan9/plumb/basic
plumbing rules using web and wmail
SOURCE
/usr/local/plan9/bin
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SEE ALSO
plumber(4)
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