Re: links

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On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> How do I copy text from links?  For some reason this is the only
> command line application that refuses to allow me to highlight and
> copy anything.  GRAH!

It's probably cheating, but...

    $ links -dump http://google.com
                                         Google

             Web    Images    Groups    News    Froogle    Local    more >>

        ________________________________________________________   Advanced Search
                [ Google Search ] [ I'm Feeling Lucky ]            Preferences
                                                                   Language Tools

                          Advertising Programs - About Google

                   (c)2005 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
    $ links -dump http://google.com > google_dump.txt
    $ links -dump http://google.com | vim -
    $

Voila!




-- 
Chris Devers

• links Michael G Schwern 22:08 on 20 May 2005
  • Re: links Chris Devers 22:27 on 20 May 2005
  • Chris Ball 22:54 on 20 May 2005
    • Michael G Schwern 23:17 on 20 May 2005
      • too deep to show
  • Juerd 23:46 on 20 May 2005
    • Michael G Schwern 00:02 on 21 May 2005
      • too deep to show

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