| 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 window. 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` environment 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`

SEE ALSO

| plumber(4)