Re: [Lynx-dev] Question about using lynx as a filter...

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Charlie Sorsby wrote:

> I'm going to try this again.  I tried posting it before but
> received an e-mail telling me that I must reply to the e-mail to
> verify that I had, indeed, posted the article.  I did but, if my
> query ever appeared, I missed it along with any responses... :(

I didn't notice that (perhaps our invisible administrative helper did).

> According to the lynx man page it should be possible to convince
> lynx to accept input via it's stdin unless I'm misunderstanding
> what is being said:
>
>    -  If the argument is only '-', then Lynx expects  to
>       receive the arguments from stdin.  This is to allow
>       for the potentially very long command line that
>       can be associated with the -get_data  or -post_data
>       arguments (see below).  It can also be used to
>       avoid having sensitive information in the invoking
>       command line (which would be visible to other
>       processes on most systems), especially when the
>       -auth or -pauth options are used.
>
> But when I try something like:
>
> PC% cat file.html | /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -force_html -

That's because the contents of file.html are not arguments, but data.
Use the "-stdin" option to tell lynx to read data (the startfile)
from the standard input.

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