Same machine and Linux is in use. I'll check out xsel thanks. On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:26:24 > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to get anything > done! > > Tim here. Are you trying to open firefox on the same machine or on a > different machine, and if a different machine, what operating system > is that other machine running? > > If it's the same machine, I'd recommend using xsel or xclip (one > might already be installed; otherwise, I prefer xsel over xclip). > You can then use a standard pipeline to extract the line from the > file and put it in the system clipboard. If the URL is the only > thing in the file, it's pretty easy: > > xsel -ib < url_file.txt > > This puts the URL in your system clipboard so you can use control+V > to paste it into the address-bar in Firefox. > > If you have multiple URLs in the file, you might want to tag them > with a keyword to help you find them: > > email https://gmail.com > long http://example.com/long/path/to/page > > You can then extract the URLs with awk and pipe to xsel: > > awk '$1 == "long"{print $2}' | xsel -ib > > or even wrap it in a shell function in your .bashrc/.bash_profile > > url() { > awk -vNAME="$1" '$1 == NAME{print $2}' | xsel -ib > } > > which would then let you type > > $ url long > > to get that long URL in your clipboard. > > If you're trying to get it onto another machine, it would depend > on the OS and what tools you have for connecting to the Linux box. > MacOS has a similar pbcopy/pbpaste command that would let you SSH > into your Linux box, search for the URL there, emitting the result, > and then piping that into pbcopy for local use. I'm afraid I don't > have recent Windows experience to determine how that would work over > on Windows. > > Hopefully this gives you some ideas and saves you a lot of > hand-transcribing of URLs. > > -tim > > On April 15, 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > I have a long ugly google url stored in a file. It's stored in a > > file so if I find a browser that works with javascript and can take > > an url from a file when the browser gets started and open that url > > for me I can maybe get this done. The long ugly url is over 200 > > characters long which is why I would like to avoid keying it all in. > > > > I just thought of something. This will even work with firefox but > > it's only for us braille users who write braille on paper and have > > plenty of paper. I could rewrite the url on paper so it's split > > into 5 character groups and have commas separating each of the > > groups and as I key in each group change the comma to a semicolon > > so I know that group already got keyed in and move along to the > > next group. > > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > > > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:36:40 > > > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to > > > get anything done! > > > > > > I am unsure what you are trying to accomplish, but have you tried > > > e-links, or links the chain instead? > > > Both browsers are included in Debian distributions of Linux. It > > > may still require some extra compile work for e-links to use > > > Javascript some, links the chain can do so, I am told as of about > > > a month ago, even in DOS. Generally I have no issues using the > > > Google services I need in lynx, but I am not doing anything with > > > YouTube. Kare > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > > > > > I found out a few minutes ago it's not possible to do something > > > > like: firefox < /home/jude/surf > > > > Where /home/jude/surf has an ugly google url in it that cannot > > > > be processed by > > > > lynx since google and so very many other web sites love > > > > blocking what doesn't use javascript. > > > > I was going to get an authentication token on this box so I > > > > could use youtube-viewer in a logged in state but that's not > > > > going to happen at all. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list