.TH "WIKIPEDIA2TEXT" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
wikipedia2text \(em displays \fBWikipedia\fP entries on the command line 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR [\fB-BCnNoOpPsSuU\fP]  [\fB-b\fP \fIprog\fR]  [ {\fB-c\fP  | \fB-i\fP  | \fB-I\fP }  \fIpatt\fR]  [\fB-l\fP \fIlang\fR]  [\fB-W\fP \fIbase-url\fR]  \fIQuery\fR 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR  \fB-o\fP [\fB-b\fP \fIprog\fR]  [\fB-l\fP \fIlang\fR]  \fIQuery\fR 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR [\fB-h\fP]  
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR  \fB-v\fP 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR  \fB-r\fP 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR command. 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR fetches and renders \fBWikipedia\fP articles using a 
text-mode web-browser (currently recognises 
\fBelinks\fR, \fBlinks2\fR, 
\fBlinks\fR, \fBlynx\fR and 
\fBw3m\fR) and display the text of the article on 
STDOUT respectively in a pager. 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.PP 
The program recognizes the following command line 
options: 
.IP "\fB-b\fP \fIprog\fR" 10 
Use program \fIprog\fR as 
browser. 
.IP "\fB-B\fP" 10 
Do not use browser configured via configuration file 
or environment. 
.IP "\fB-c\fP \fIpatt\fR, \fB-I\fP \fIpatt\fR" 10 
Colorize case-sensitive pattern 
\fIpatt\fR in output. 
.IP "\fB-C\fP, \fB-N\fP" 10 
Colorize output. 
.IP "\fB-h\fP" 10 
Show help and a summary of options. 
.IP "\fB-i\fP \fIpatt\fR" 10 
Colorize case-insensitive pattern 
\fIpatt\fR in output. 
.IP "\fB-l\fP \fIlang\fR" 10 
use \fBWikipedia\fP in 
language \fIlang\fR. See the 
\fBWikipedia\fP Languages entry elsewhere in this 
document. 
.IP "\fB-n\fP" 10 
Do not colorize output. 
.IP "\fB-o\fP" 10 
Open the \fBWikipedia\fP page in the browser. 
.IP "\fB-O\fP" 10 
Do not open the \fBWikipedia\fP page in the browser. 
.IP "\fB-p\fP" 10 
Use a pager (set by default). 
.IP "\fB-P\fP" 10 
Don't use a pager. 
.IP "\fB-r\fP" 10 
Display a random \fBWikipedia\fP article. 
.IP "\fB-s\fP" 10 
Display only the summary of the \fBWikipedia\fP article. 
.IP "\fB-S\fP" 10 
Display the full content of the \fBWikipedia\fP article 
and not only the summary. 
.IP "\fB-u\fP" 10 
Just print the URL of the \fBWikipedia\fP page and exit. 
.IP "\fB-U\fP" 10 
Display the full content of the \fBWikipedia\fP article 
and not only print the URL of the page. 
.IP "\fB-v\fP" 10 
Show version number. 
.IP "\fB-W\fP \fIbase-url\fR" 10 
use \fIbase-url\fR as base URL 
for wikipedia (e.g. use a different wiki), querying 
this URL will happen by appending the search 
term. 
.SH "ENVIRONMENT" 
.PP 
The following environment variables are recognized: 
.IP "\fBABROWSER\fP" 10 
Browser to use as default instead of to found or 
configured web browser. 
.IP "\fBIGNCASE\fP" 10 
Default value for case-sensitivity of colorizing 
the output. Can be set to "true" or "false". 
.IP "\fBLOCAL\fP" 10 
Default value for language in which \fBWikipedia\fP should be 
used. See the \fBWikipedia\fP Languages entry elsewhere in 
this document. 
.IP "\fBOUTPUTURL\fP" 10 
Determines, if \fBwikipedia2text\fR should display only 
the URL of the \fBWikipedia\fP article by default. Can 
be set to "true" or "false". 
.IP "\fBPAGER\fP" 10 
Default value for pager to use. Can also be set 
to "true", in which case, \fBwikipedia2text\fR tries to 
figure out the appropriate pager, or "false", which 
means not to use a pager at all. 
.IP "\fBSHORT\fP" 10 
Determines, if \fBwikipedia2text\fR should display only 
the summary of the \fBWikipedia\fP article by default. Can 
be set to "true" or "false". 
.IP "\fBUSEBROWSER\fP" 10 
Determines, if \fBwikipedia2text\fR should open the \fBWikipedia\fP page 
via \fBopenurl\fR in the globally set default 
browser, i.e. \fBFirefox\fR or 
\fBKonqueror\fR, by default. Can be set to 
"true" or "false". 
.SH "FILES" 
.IP "\fB$HOME/.wikipedia2textrc\fP" 10 
Will be sourced from \fBwikipedia2text\fR on 
startup. Should contain variable assignments. The same 
variables as for the environment are recognised. 
.SH "WIKIPEDIA LANGUAGES" 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR currently supports the following 
\fBWikipedia\fP languages: 
.IP "af" 10 
Cape Dutch (Afrikaans) 
.IP "als" 10 
Alemannic 
.IP "ca" 10 
Catalan 
.IP "cs" 10 
Czech 
.IP "da" 10 
Danish 
.IP "de" 10 
German 
.IP "en" 10 
English 
.IP "eo" 10 
Esperanto 
.IP "es" 10 
Spanish 
.IP "fi" 10 
Finnish 
.IP "fr" 10 
French 
.IP "hu" 10 
Hungarian 
.IP "ia" 10 
Interlingua 
.IP "is" 10 
Islandic 
.IP "it" 10 
Italian 
.IP "la" 10 
Latin 
.IP "lb" 10 
Luxembourgian 
.IP "nds" 10 
Low German 
.IP "nl" 10 
Dutch 
.IP "nn, no" 10 
Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokm\(oal) 
.IP "pl" 10 
Polish 
.IP "pt" 10 
Portuguese 
.IP "rm" 10 
Rhaeto-Romanic 
.IP "ro" 10 
Romanian 
.IP "simple" 10 
Simple English 
.IP "sk" 10 
Slovak 
.IP "sl" 10 
Slovenian 
.IP "sv" 10 
Swedish 
.IP "tr" 10 
Turkish 
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
elinks(1), links(1), links2(1), lynx(1), w3m(1) 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR was written by Christian Brabandt 
<cb@256bit.org>. Patches also from Axel Beckert 
<abe@deuxchevaux.org>. 
.PP 
This manual page was written by Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others).  Permission is 
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License 
(GPL), Version 2 any later version published 
by the Free Software Foundation. 
.PP 
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General 
Public License can be found in 
\fB/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL\fP. 
.SH "HISTORY" 
.PP 
wikipedia2text was first released by Christian Brabandt on 
\fIin 
his blog (link to URL http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html) \fR with as script named 
\fBwiki\fR. Some users may find it useful to create 
an alias with that name for speeding up the typing of a 
\fBwikipedia2text\fR command if no other command of that name is 
present. 
.SH "OTHER INFO" 
.PP 
The current version of \fBwikipedia2text\fR should be available at 
\fIon Christian 
Brabandt's website (link to URL http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) \fR. 
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