lynx --version (return code: 0)
Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.8 (21 Dec 2015)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.4.9, ncurses 6.0.20160213(wide)
Built on linux-gnu.
Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ and the online help for more information.
lynx --help (return code: 0)
USAGE: lynx [options] [file]
Options are:
- receive options and arguments from stdin
-accept_all_cookies
accept cookies without prompting if Set-Cookie handling
is on (off)
-anonymous apply restrictions for anonymous account,
see also -restrictions
-assume_charset=MIMEname
charset for documents that don't specify it
-assume_local_charset=MIMEname
charset assumed for local files
-assume_unrec_charset=MIMEname
use this instead of unrecognized charsets
-auth=id:pw authentication information for protected documents
-base prepend a request URL comment and BASE tag to text/html
outputs for -source dumps
-bibhost=URL local bibp server (default http://bibhost/)
-book use the bookmark page as the startfile (off)
-buried_news toggles scanning of news articles for buried references (on)
-cache=NUMBER NUMBER of documents cached in memory
-case enable case sensitive user searching (off)
-center toggle center alignment in HTML TABLE (off)
-cfg=FILENAME specifies a lynx.cfg file other than the default
-child exit on left-arrow in startfile, and disable save to disk
-child_relaxed exit on left-arrow in startfile (allows save to disk)
-cmd_log=FILENAME log keystroke commands to the given file
-cmd_script=FILENAME
read keystroke commands from the given file
(see -cmd_log)
-connect_timeout=N
set the N-second connection timeout (18000)
-cookie_file=FILENAME
specifies a file to use to read cookies
-cookie_save_file=FILENAME
specifies a file to use to store cookies
-cookies toggles handling of Set-Cookie headers (on)
-core toggles forced core dumps on fatal errors (off)
-crawl with -traversal, output each page to a file
with -dump, format output as with -traversal, but to stdout
-curses_pads uses curses pad feature to support left/right shifting (on)
-debug_partial incremental display stages with MessageSecs delay (off)
-default_colors use terminal default foreground/background colors (on)
-delay=NNN set NNN-second delay at statusline message (0.000)
-display=DISPLAY set the display variable for X exec'ed programs
-display_charset=MIMEname
charset for the terminal output
-dont_wrap_pre inhibit wrapping of text in <pre> when -dump'ing and
-crawl'ing, mark wrapped lines in interactive session (off)
-dump dump the first file to stdout and exit
-editor=EDITOR enable edit mode with specified editor
-emacskeys enable emacs-like key movement (off)
-enable_scrollback
toggles compatibility with comm programs' scrollback
keys (may be incompatible with some curses packages) (off)
-error_file=FILE write the HTTP status code here
-exec enable local program execution
-force_empty_hrefless_a
force HREF-less 'A' elements to be empty (close them as
soon as they are seen) (off)
-force_html forces the first document to be interpreted as HTML (off)
-force_secure toggles forcing of the secure flag for SSL cookies (off)
-forms_options toggles forms-based vs old-style options menu (on)
-from toggle transmission of From headers (on)
-ftp disable ftp access (off)
-get_data user data for get forms, read from stdin,
terminated by '---' on a line
-head send a HEAD request (off)
-help print this usage message
-hiddenlinks=[option]
hidden links: options are merge, listonly, or ignore
-historical toggles use of '>' or '-->' as terminator for comments (off)
-homepage=URL set homepage separate from start page
-html5_charsets toggles use of HTML5 charset replacements (off)
-image_links toggles inclusion of links for all images (off)
-index=URL set the default index file to URL
-ismap toggles inclusion of ISMAP links when client-side
MAPs are present (off)
-justify do justification of text (off)
-link=NUMBER starting count for lnk#.dat files produced by -crawl (0)
-list_inline with -dump, forces it to show links inline with text (off)
-listonly with -dump, forces it to show only the list of links (off)
-localhost disable URLs that point to remote hosts (off)
-locexec enable local program execution from local files only (off)
-lss=FILENAME specifies a lynx.lss file other than the default
-mime_header include mime headers and force source dump
-minimal toggles minimal versus valid comment parsing (on)
-nested_tables toggles nested-tables logic (off)
-newschunksize=NUMBER
number of articles in chunked news listings
-newsmaxchunk=NUMBER
maximum news articles in listings before chunking
-nobold disable bold video-attribute
-nobrowse disable directory browsing
-nocc disable Cc: prompts for self copies of mailings (off)
-nocolor turn off color support
-noexec disable local program execution (DEFAULT) (on)
-nofilereferer disable transmission of Referer headers for file URLs (on)
-nolist disable the link list feature in dumps (off)
-nolog disable mailing of error messages to document owners (on)
-nomargins disable the right/left margins in the default
style-sheet (off)
-nomore disable -more- string in statusline messages
-nonrestarting_sigwinch
make window size change handler non-restarting (off)
-nonumbers disable the link/form numbering feature in dumps (off)
-nopause disable forced pauses for statusline messages
-noprint disable some print functions, like -restrictions=print (off)
-noredir don't follow Location: redirection (off)
-noreferer disable transmission of Referer headers (off)
-noreverse disable reverse video-attribute
-nostatus disable the miscellaneous information messages (off)
-notitle disable the title at the top of each page (off)
-nounderline disable underline video-attribute
-number_fields force numbering of links as well as form input fields (off)
-number_links force numbering of links (off)
-partial toggles display partial pages while downloading (on)
-partial_thres [=NUMBER]
number of lines to render before repainting display
with partial-display logic (-1)
-passive-ftp toggles passive ftp connection (on)
-pauth=id:pw authentication information for protected proxy server
-popup toggles handling of single-choice SELECT options via
popup windows or as lists of radio buttons (off)
-post_data user data for post forms, read from stdin,
terminated by '---' on a line
-preparsed show parsed text/html with -source and in source view
to visualize how lynx behaves with invalid HTML (off)
-prettysrc do syntax highlighting and hyperlink handling in source
view (off)
-print enable print functions (DEFAULT), opposite of -noprint (on)
-pseudo_inlines toggles pseudo-ALTs for inlines with no ALT string (on)
-raw toggles default setting of 8-bit character translations
or CJK mode for the startup character set (off)
-realm restricts access to URLs in the starting realm (off)
-read_timeout=N set the N-second read-timeout (18000)
-reload flushes the cache on a proxy server
(only the first document affected) (off)
-restrictions=[options]
use -restrictions to see list
-resubmit_posts toggles forced resubmissions (no-cache) of forms with
method POST when the documents they returned are sought
with the PREV_DOC command or from the History List (off)
-rlogin disable rlogins (off)
-scrollbar toggles showing scrollbar (off)
-scrollbar_arrow toggles showing arrows at ends of the scrollbar (on)
-selective require .www_browsable files to browse directories
-session=FILENAME resumes from specified file on startup and
saves session to that file on exit
-sessionin=FILENAME
resumes session from specified file
-sessionout=FILENAME
saves session to specified file
-short_url enables examination of beginning and end of long URL in
status line (off)
-show_cfg Show `LYNX.CFG' setting (off)
-show_cursor toggles hiding of the cursor in the lower right corner (on)
-show_rate toggles display of transfer rate (on)
-soft_dquotes toggles emulation of the old Netscape and Mosaic
bug which treated '>' as a co-terminator for
double-quotes and tags (off)
-source dump the source of the first file to stdout and exit
-stack_dump disable SIGINT cleanup handler (off)
-startfile_ok allow non-http startfile and homepage with -validate (off)
-stderr write warning messages to standard error when -dump
or -source is used (off)
-stdin read startfile from standard input (off)
-syslog=text information for syslog call
-syslog-urls log requested URLs with syslog (off)
-tagsoup use TagSoup rather than SortaSGML parser (off)
-telnet disable telnets (off)
-term=TERM set terminal type to TERM
-tlog toggles use of a Lynx Trace Log for the current
session (on)
-tna turn on "Textfields Need Activation" mode (off)
-trace turns on Lynx trace mode (off)
-trace_mask customize Lynx trace mode (0)
-traversal traverse all http links derived from startfile
-trim_input_fields
trim input text/textarea fields in forms (off)
-underline_links toggles use of underline/bold attribute for links (off)
-underscore toggles use of _underline_ format in dumps (off)
-unique_urls toggles use of unique-urls setting for -dump and -listonly options (off)
-use_mouse turn on mouse support (off)
-useragent=Name set alternate Lynx User-Agent header
-validate accept only http URLs (meant for validation)
implies more restrictions than -anonymous, but
goto is allowed for http and https (off)
-verbose toggles [LINK], [IMAGE] and [INLINE] comments
with filenames of these images (on)
-version print Lynx version information
-vikeys enable vi-like key movement (off)
-width=NUMBER screen width for formatting of dumps (default is 80)
-with_backspaces emit backspaces in output if -dumping or -crawling
(like 'man' does) (off)
-xhtml-parsing enable XHTML 1.0 parsing (off)