howto open html using trminal

[kaykav]

good evening,
I came across a little problem: I downloaded a grub-doc in html format. Its in my /usr/share directory. I can open that html document using gui (open with firefox), but how would I open it using the command line? Im using Ubuntu 8,04. I remember a cmd like gtksudo or something similar. Nontheless how would I do that? thank you...Rich

[michaelk]

Define open. What are you trying to accomplish?
Do you want to view the raw html contents?

gtksudo is a graphical form of sudo. It will allow you to run apps as root in a GUI environment. I would say you already have read permissions.

In addition this is a duplicate post.

[kaykav]

good morning,
I posted again due to the ambiguous answer on previous post.
Iam trying to open a html file to read it in human form from the command line. Can this be done? ....Rich

[michaelk]

So how does starting a new thread with the same question hope for a better answer? And why did you not ask a follow up question in the same thread?
I am just as guilty for replying.

I see a couple of options; elinks, lynx and links are command line web browsers but they do not have graphics capabilities. Conversion utilities like html2text (remove the HTML code) are another possibility.

[mrrangerman43]

Can't you just view it using nano or vi?

[michaelk]

The OP has requested human readable form so not unless the HMTL tags etc have been removed.

[bwkaz]

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=886187#post886187

Continue there. DO NOT post a new thread!