lynx Command on Linux: Terminal Web Browsing in Text Mode
The lynx command on Linux is a text-mode web browser.
It is usually not installed by default in distributions, and can be installed using the standard package manager:
$ apt-get install lynx
or
$ yum install lynx
Once installed, simply run it by providing the URL as a parameter.
$ lynx https://www.certificacaolinux.com.br Lynx in the Terminal |
It doesn't make much sense to use a text-mode browser... unless you're a programmer facing really weird bugs in applications, usually related to cache, especially JavaScript cache.
This way, you can verify a local page in an extremely simple browser (and one that doesn't use cache) to determine if it's a cache issue or not.
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