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Archive for March 25th, 2008

25 Mar

Tool of the day: lynx

lynx is a browser that renders html files as text, optionally using color and bolding. A client needed a word count of a bunch of html files and after installing lynx I used it in batch mode:
lynx *.html –dump –nolist | wc
The –dump option dumps the returned text rather than present it in an interactive [...]

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