> On 2022-09-17, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The documentation website for 'links' is at: > > http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html > > > > and says: > > "You will find here a complete guide for using the Links web > > browser" > > > > and it contains nothing at all about a '-dump' option. > > http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#subsubch-save_as
But if you try it, you'll see that saves the page as HTML, not as a snapshot of the displayed text. > Save as > Stores the currently displayed page into a file. A dialog for > entering the filename will appear after calling this function. The > page will be saved under this filename. If the file already exists, > it will be overwritten. > > Save URL as > Works like the previous function, with the difference that you will > be first asked for the URL of a page to download, and then for a > filename to store the page into. After both have been entered, the > page will be downloaded and saved. > > Then, of course, there's the man page: > > -dump [0|1] (default: 0) > Print formatted plain-text versions of given URLs to stdout. > -dump-charset (alias for document.dump.codepage) > Codepage used when formatting dump output. > -dump-color-mode (alias for document.dump.color_mode) > Color mode used with -dump. > -dump-width (alias for document.dump.width) > Width of the dump output. > > https://linux.die.net/man/1/links And that of course helpfully points out at the top that its describing the behaviour of elinks rather than link itself. > Good luck. >
